Illustrated Catalogue of the Highly Decorative Furniture and Other Artistic Property, Belonging to the Estate of the Late Herman LANs: French, English ... Eighteenth Centuries, Including Fine Inland

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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Highly Decorative Furniture and Other Artistic Property, Belonging to the Estate of the Late Herman Lans: French, English and Italian, in the Style and Period of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Including Fine Inland Tulipwood, Painted and Lacquer Commodes, Tables and Cabinets, Carved Oak and Walnut in the Jacobean and Queen Anne Manner

In 1917 Mr. Herman Lans joined the March of the Boys Overseas, and the strenuous exertions of the expedition unfortunately drew too much on his vitality and he quietly passed away in May of this year at the premature age of thirty, cutting off a most promising rising artistic personality that was universally admired.

The collection is of a highly decorative character, and reflects mature taste and really catholic judgment. A very remarkable feature of the gathering exhibits Herman s prescience of the present strong trend in America to. The more restrained French furniture of the Eigh teenth Century. For there are numerous sedate Inlaid Tulipwood Commodes, Tables and Cabinets reasonably mounted in the ever-present Cuivre Doré; Lacquer and daintily Decorated Laqué of very posi tive charm and usefulness. The assemblage of one hundred Needlework Cushions, - Chairs, Sofas, banquette-s, Screens and Hangings is most engaging, and fascinates with a splendid diversity of design and great beauty of color. A number of Saxe Porcelain Figurines and Groups, Bristol Glass, Lustred Candelabra and Chandeliers in amethyst. Sapphire-blue and amber and Crystal Glass relieve the simplicity of the furniture.

The Rich Velvets, Embroidered Covers and Hangings have de lightful passages of color all their own, and finely complement the glass and porcelain.

Earlier French, Italian and Jacobean Carved Furniture, Lacquerand fine Walnut Queen Anne and Georgian specimens are also embraced in the collection, and these, with the Sheraton and Adam examples, lend a further interest and effectiveness to the exhibition.

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