RARE ART TREASURES. 
Among the many loan exhibitions which have been 
held in various cities within a few years past none, per¬ 
haps, have been so rich in antiquities and curios as the 
one now given by this city for the benefit of the Bar¬ 
tholdi pedestal. Indeed, few cities have the resources 
which New York possesses for supplying such art 
treasures as the Vanderbilts, Astors, etc., have collected 
and kindly put upon exhibition. 
A tiny musical watch, in the form of a lute, attracts 
a great deal of attention, as it once belonged to Marie 
Antoinette. The lute, as shown in our illustration, is 
about three inches in length, its strings of fine gold 
wire are each held in place by a diamond. The body of 
shaft or vase, and a white dove has alighted at their 
feet; this is a sequel to the picture in a section of the 
chatelaine, in which the doves are seen bringing the 
flowers to the cupids. The design is unique and beauti¬ 
fully executed. 
• A third watch belonging to the Vanderbilt collection 
is in the form of a tiny vase, one half of which is on a 
hinge, so that it can be raised to show the dial; the 
most delicate of gold filagree work is used with this in 
which rubies and pearls are set. 
A gold octagon-shaped tnbatiere, or snuff-box, the 
third figure in our illustration, has on its cover a por¬ 
trait of Vitre, printer to Louis XIV., made by Bordier 
the little instrument is decorated with blue enamel, its 
edge, bordered with diamonds set close together; on 
the back, which opens to disclose the face of the watch, 
is a raised monogram and a jeweled crown. Another 
beautiful piece is a chatelaine and watch, Louis XVI., 
enameled and set with pearls. As can be seen in the en¬ 
gravings, the different sections of the chatelaine are 
held together with six little chains, three of them con¬ 
sisting of six bead pearls fastened together; the watch 
itself was an inch in diameter, its case enameled and set 
with pearls. An oval-sbaped picture in the centre rep¬ 
resents two cupids putting garlands of flowers on a 
in 1051. About the picture are grouped delicate flowers 
in blue and red enamel. 
An elaborate piece of silver repousse work consists of 
a silver basin and ewer of the time of William IV., 
uncle of Queen Victoria. The ewer is thirty inches in 
diameter, its edge shaped in deep flutes, and every por¬ 
tion covered with exquisite work. 
Rare old laces are always of interest to ladies, and a 
part of a flounce one-half a yard deep, with the impe¬ 
rial lily of France, its buds and leaves wrought in the 
border and honey-bees scattered over the foundation, is 
frost-like in its delicateness. It was ordered by Napo- 
