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GIFTS OF ANCIENT ART ARE MADE TO YALE

Gallery of Fine Arts Receives Asiatic Textiles - Also Rare Bronzes and Prints

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 21. - 
Gifts to the Yale Gallery of Fine Arts will be placed on exhibtion in honor of the twenty-fifth annual Alumni Day tomorrow were announced today. The donors wi include Richard C. Hunt, New York City, Yale Law School, '08; Edward B. Greene, '00, of Cleveland; Mrs William H. Moore of New York City, in memory of her son, Hobard Moore, Yale College, '00, and the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale.

Mr. Hunt gave the gallery a fourteenth-century Italian altar piece, four Barye bronzes and several Renaissance prints and drawings which once formed part of the collections of his father and grandfather, Richard Rowland Hunt and Richard Morris Hunt, distinguished American architects.

The four bronzes by Antoine Louis Barye include "Panther Seizing a Stag," "Theseus Slaying the Monitaur" and Mr. Hunt's gift of bronzes is completed with two small figures of Juno and Minerva.

Mr. Hunt has added to the gallery's print collection numerous prints and drawings dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

The Hobart Moore Memorial Collection of Asiatic Textiles is a systematic series of textiles which illustrates the history of both art and craft in the East Mediterranean basin and Asia from the early Christian Era.

The series begins with more than a hundred examples of the wool and linen tapestry motifs woven in Egypt by the Copts. One band shows, fantastically combined, echoes of the age-old tree worship in a form that had originated in Iran in the fourth millennium B. C., the veneration of the sacred crocodile and one of the earliest records of the sport of hawking.

The Edward B. Greene Collection of Engraved Prints contains 267 items and 13 portrait drawings, the great bulk of the collection comprising the work of seventeenth-century Frenchmen of the reigns of Louis XIII and XIV - Callot, Morin, Mellan, Masson, Drevet and Edelinck. There are fifty-three portraits by Robert Nanteuil.