Studio: international art (23.1901)

Studio-Talk

"TWO HUMAN BEINGS " BY PROFESSOR SINDING

(See Copenhagen Studio-Talk)

everything savouring of conventionalism, and his
works almost without exception have the hall-mark
of a strong and independent personality.

G. B.

HOLLAND.—An Exhibition of consider-
able importance for art-industries is
now open at The Hague.

In the Gothic Hall, kindly lent for that purpose
by the Queen, a unique collection is brought
together of old furniture, carved in ebony and ivory,
teak and djati-wood, of the sort called Old Dutch
or Indo-Portuguese, of which there are some few
specimens in the South Kensington Museum and
at Penshurst Place. The tables, chests, chairs and
beds were wonderfully ornamented by Indian work-
men on types of European furniture of the epoch.
About fifty pieces are brought together here from
private collections in Holland.

The textiles give a perfectly complete survey
ot all types of the art of weaving as practised
by the aborigines of the Dutch Indian Archipelago,
in their simple and artistic manner. Among them
there are many Java " batiks" (dyed cotton),
giving nearly all the motives and delicate colours
that have been handed down for centuries in the
different noble Javanese families of Djocja and Solo.

There are also woven cloths in silk and gold and
silver thread, in cotton and bark of trees, from
Atjeh, Bali, Palembang, the Battaks and Dajaks,
the Talaet and Sangir and Timor Isles.

These valuable pieces were kindly lent for this
special Exhibition, which was organised by the
Society " Oost en West" by many collectors and
by the museums of Leyden, Haarlem, Utrecht
Rotterdam, etc. This remarkable exhibition con-
tains about one thousand specimens that will
probably never again be seen together. Ph. Z.

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