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Rare Chinese Art Shown
In Varied Forms

At the Jacques Seligmann Galleries C. T. Loo is holding an exhibition of a collection of Chinese eighteenth century ink-wash paintings, archaic bronzes, jades, pottery, porcelains and a few Hindu and Cambodian sculptures. As the exhibition reaches over two floors and has no listing, it is difficult to record its many varieties of interest. The large stela on the main floor, with a standing Maitreya in the center and two Bodisattva attendants, is one of the "important" items of the collection. On the walls of this gallery are delightful paintings of flowers and animals which illustrate the sympathy with nature characteristic of the Confucian philosophy. There is an exquisite fugitive quality in these delicate drawings of stalks of bamboo, of reed birds of the most tenuous records of flower, stalk and blossom. 
A gallery of Greco-Buddhistic sculpture in many forms sets one to wondering what form Buddhistic art might have taken if the spread of Buddhism had not occurred exactly at the time when communication was established between the Hellenic West and the Far East. This realistic art, reaching India through the trade routes and imposing its ideals on Buddhistic sculpture, established conventions of posture, garments and decorative detail in the familiar type of the seated Buddha, which came to be accepted wherever Buddhism prevailed.
Some beautiful tomb figures in terra cotta of the Han period, dancing figures as well as the realistically modeled horses so characteristic of the period, a beautiful Sung jar of ivory white glaze carved under the glaze and a group of remarkable small carvings in jade and ivory are some of the many treasures that memory recalls from a wealth of rarities. A bronze group of the Buddhistic trinity, somewhat similar to the one in the Boston Museum, is an unusual and important item. In addition there is a group of bronzes inlaid with gold and silver of fine workmanship, taken from a tomb in Honan Province. A small bronze sculpture of Siva illustrates the art of Southern India, while heads from Cambodia and Java indicate something of the wide range of the exposition.
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Contemporary Arts
Kenneth Bates is holding an exhibition of painting and pastels at