ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF VALUABLE AND INTERESTING ART PROPERTY AND ANTIQUITIES BELONGING TO THE WIDELY KNOWN HOUSE OF KARL FREUND ANTIQUARIAN TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE ON ACCOUNT OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF A PARTNER ON THE AFTERNOONS HEREIN STATED AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK CATALOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. HORACE TOWNSEND, ASSISTED BY MR. KARL FREUND AND MR. WILLIAM W. ODOM THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY AND HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTPO BERNET, OF THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS NEW YORK 1916 THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIRECTS ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY PREFATORY NOTE BY MR. FREUND At this moment, when a large and important part of my collection is to be disposed of by unrestricted public sale, I feel it my duty to say a few words of explanation to my numerous friends and patrons who might have wondered why a business as prosperous as mine should enter into such a proceeding. It has been known to but a few that about five years ago I entered into partnership with a gentleman who for some time has not taken an active part in the business. Having decided recently to dissolve this partnership, we have agreed that it would be only fair to both of us to dispose of the art objects in which we are interested at a public sale, under the management of the American Art Association. While I naturally regret to see this unique collection—the result of my personal and indefatigable researches all over Europe—scat- tered to the many who will be purchasers, it is necessary for me to do this in order to carry on my new enterprises along personal lines and on a much larger scale. Karl J. Freund. 3 East 47th Street, New York City, March, 1916. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/einterestOOamer NOTE OF APPRECIATION BY MRS. FREDERICK C. HAVEMEYER It would seem to thinking people that public taste Is con- stantly improving and very soon those who arc still in ignorance of true form and color must remain forever dissatisfied! This collection of objects so delicate and subtle in feeling will not fail to be appreciated by those who are looking for an expression of their own individuality. It is hoped and believed that each article so carefully and affectionately chosen will find its true environment in the home of its future possessor. (Signed) Lii.lie Havemeyek. 34 East 37th Street, New York City, March, 1916. CONDITIONS OF SALE 1. Any bid which i.s merely ;i nominal or fractional advance may be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the pur- chasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the lime of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and without other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale shall be a charge against such purchaser. 4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days—except holidays —between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on pre- senting the bill of purchase. Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed by the Association for purchasers. The Association will, however, afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable rates carriers and packers ; doing so, however, without any assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. 6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the pur- chaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer's hammer, and thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if such purchase he lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. Storage charges will he made upon all purchases not removed within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association of the correctness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of an}* lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, error of cataloguing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which it is sold "as is" and without recourse. The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- rectly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued, and, in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper foundation. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, American Art Galleries, Madison Square South, New York City. CATALOGUE W¥r. 1ft' M THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION MANAGERS SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES THE KARL FREUND COLLECTION Afternoons of March 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd, 1916 To save time and to prevent mistakes each Purchaser will oblige the Managers by filling in this slip and hand- ing it to the Record Clerk or Sales Attendant on making the first purchase. Purchaser'* Name Addrat* in Full Amount of Deposit I "t I . -^if i InMr • *-: \ —— FIRST AFTERNOON'S SALE MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1916 AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES BEGINNING AT 2.30 O'CLOCK OLD ENGLISH AND CHINESE PORCELAINS 1 —Set of Three Old Vienna Porcelain Coffee Cups and Saucers Straight-sided cups, with square looped handles. The saucers decorated, on a yellow ground, with transfer prints in sepia of classical subjects entitled, respectively, "Le Silence," "L'Af- fection" and "II la hie"; the cups, with classical vases of various designs and foliated gold borders. Mark : Shield in blue. 2 Anglo-American Historical Liverpool Ware Cups and Saucers Cups without handles. Decorated with transfer print in black of "Steamboat on the Hudson," and of the "Cadmus under full sail and flying the American flag." Surrounded by bands of pink luster. 3 Old Chinese-Lowestoft Porcelain Cream Ewer Pear-shaped body, with looped handle. Invested with a fine white glaze and decorated with a vase of flowers and floral spra3*s painted in colored enamels. Height. I inches. 4 Early Nineteenth Cuntury Staffordshire Luster-ware Pitcher Decorated, on a buff-colored ground, with circular medallions of transfer printed landscape views and with bandings of silver luster. :>' Il< ii/hl . inches. ——— First Afternoon 5 Pair ok Early American Stiegel Glass Beakers Straight sides, decorated with flutings and bands of checkered pattern in relief. Height. 5',/, inches. 6—Pair of Old Rotten Faience Salt Cellars Oval-shaped, with handles formed as modeled masks. Decorated, on a white glazed ground, with scrollings of yellow, red and blue. Height. 4 inches-: length. 7 inches. 7 Old Turner Bamboo-ware Bowl and Cover Domed cover, with bands of fluted and acanthus-leaf decora- tion and widow finial, the bod}T with a band of fluting and detached groups of Wedgwood figures in relief. Banded with blue glazing. Mark: "Turner" impressed. Height. 5 inches. 8 Old Turner Bamboo-ware Mug Cylindrical body, with loop handles. Decorated with brown glazed bands and applied cream-colored oval medallion occu- pied by a horn painted in blue. Mark: "Turner" impressed. Heiqht. 6 inches. 9 Chinese Teapot Square form, with looped bamboo handle. Decorated with raised and gilt borderings of a bamboo pattern. The body with raised oval medallions painted with Chinese figure subjects on a diapered ground. (Spout repaired.) Height. C>y., inches. 10 Old Chinese-Lowestoft Sauce Boat and Stand Quatrefoil-shaped stand and boat-shaped sauce boat, with looped, twisted handle. Invested with a greenish-white glaze and deco- rated with bands of gold and purple lines and with a shield with armorial bearings of a rampant lion and a crest of a "Pelican in her Piety," painted in colored enamel. Height, 3V; inches: length. 7'/, inches. —— First A fternoon 11 —Oi.n Tubneb Bamboo-ware Pitches Pear-shaped body with straight looped handle. Decorated with fluted and reeded hands of brown glazing and with a band of sporting subjects in relief.