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Title: Brooklyn Museum Quarterly
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Brooklyn museum quarterly
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Publisher: Brooklyn
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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)ut little more than one diameter tothe north and south. One is tempted in tlie presence of such an unusual mani- 132 festation of nature to moralize, to question. What effectdid the echpse have upon the uninformed; upon the supersti-tious Indian? Or, how (hd animal life hehave during theperiod of growing and complete darkness? For my part, 1 like Ijcst the comparison of a totaleclipse, especially as regards color effect, to the artificiallighting in a vast theatre. The spectacle was a short act in the Drama of the Ages,with the jNIaster Hand at the switchboard, and as the awe-inspiring scene came to a close, arrogant man laughed andjoked as if new life were found and his own pigmy show€ould Ro on undisturbed. H. B. T. 133
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AN INSTALLATION OF CHINESE WALL VASES, AVERY COLLECTIONAssociated with these, at the top of the installation, is a screen panel ofChinese cloisonne representing a landscape. The wall vases of this panel areporcelains, with exception of the center piece, which is gilt bronze, and of thesmall vases, lert and right, above the center, one of which is bronze (left), and theother bamboo (right). Chinese Wall Vases and Cloisonne )% /TR. SAMUEL P. AVP^RYS most recent benefactionIVJ. to the Brooklyn ^Nluseiun is the gift of a collection ofChinese wall vases. The Chinese wall vase is intended forsuspension, and is used to hold flowers. It presents thefront and outline of an ordinary vase, but is only the halfsection of such a vase, the back being flat, with a small re-cess near the top crossed by a bar or some other similar de-vice as a means to hanging the vase. These wall vases occurvery infrequently in collections, so much so that no publicinstitution in the United States is known in which m

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