6 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1963 



The Honorable and Mrs. Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr., purchased for 

 the Museum 600 fine examples of early Rhenish and Dutch pottery ; 

 Harry Winston gave the great blue Hope Diamond; and the estate 

 of Mrs. Maude Monell Vetlesen, through her son Edmund C. Monell, 

 donated 130 pieces of beautifully carved jade ranging in age from the 

 INiing through the Ching dynasties. 



Dr. Hans Syz began presenting in annual installments one of the 

 outstanding privately owned collections of fine European porcelain 

 of the earliest period. Mrs. Herbert Arthur May made gifts of laces, 

 glass, Americana, Indian materials, and the magnificent necklace of 

 diamonds which Napoleon I gave to the Empress Marie-Louise on 

 the occasion of the birth of their son in 1811. 



Lessing J. Rosenwald presented an outstanding English astrolabe 

 of 1325 and a 16th-century folding sundial compass engraved with 

 maps and travel routes of central Europe. The International Busi- 

 ness Machines Corp. presented 21 beautifully engraved astrolabes 

 from Persia, India, North Africa, and Europe of the 13th and later 

 centuries, and 24 rare pre-Spanish textiles. 



Willis H. du Pont made two outstanding gifts : a collection of coins 

 and medals struck in the name of Peter the Great, with a copy of 

 the rare 11-volume monograph on Russian coins by the Grand Duke 

 Georgii Mikhailovitch ; and 860 coins and medals issued in the reigns 

 of Czar Ivan III and Czarina Elizabeth, also from the Grand Duke's 

 collection. 



The family of the late Henry T. Peters presented nearly 2,000 

 lithographs by American printmakers other than Currier and Ives, 

 from the "America on Stone" collection. 



Mrs. W. Murray Crane presented a fine collection of French and 

 English furniture of the 18th century, and the Misses Helen R. 

 and Elizabeth W. Newcombe gave the complete furnishings of a 19th- 

 century American parlor. 



Senator Clinton P. Anderson, Regent of the Smithsonian, presented 

 a fine copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer printed by William Morris in 

 1896; and the late Mrs. Richard Saltonstall, mother of Senator 

 Leverett Saltonstall, Regent of the Smithsonian, gave a handsome 

 family carriage made by Thomas Goddard of Boston in 1851 ; included 

 with the gift was a grant for its restoration. 



Mrs. Clara W. Berwick made several gifts, one of 176 pieces of 

 early American glass; Mrs. George Hewitt Myers gave 48 pieces of 

 rare Castleford porcelain of 1T90-1820. Arthur E. Wullschleger 

 discovered a French hand-and-foot treadle loom of the 18th century 

 equipped with a Jacquard mechanism of the early 19th century, which 

 he restored and presented to the Smithsonian. 



