Precious Chinese Jade Collection Given By Danes

On exhibition this week in the Fogg Art Museum is one of the most valuable and beautiful collections of Chinese jades, porcelains, crystals and pottery over gathered, the gift of the late Ernest B. Dane, and Mrs. Dane, of Brookline.

The collection was given to the University prier to Mr. Dane's death in April, it being his desire that the fifth be associated with the 50th reunion of the Class of 1892, of which he was a member. It will be known as the Ernest B. Dane and Helen Pratt Dane Collection.

Chun Pottery Included

Included are a number of pieces of twelfth and thirteenth century Chinese pottery known as Chun and they are second to none both in quality and quantity. Some 300 examples of elaborate eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese jades and crystal's constitute the main body of the collection. Their variety of shape, beauty of color and diversity of ornament make this group, Museum officials state, of unusual interest to art lovers and petroologists.

Another notable part of the collection is a group of 60 large and perfect specimen of irreplaceable lavender blue porcelains of the thirteenth century, rare among American and European museums.

A third part of the collection includes 46 examples of the Chinese brown and black pottery wares. These wares, have been collected during the last three centuries by Japanese connoisseurs, who have paid prices for them greater than any paid for pottery or porcelain at any time in the world's history.

Several beautiful examples of other types of wares complete the collection. Among them are ten pieces from the tombs of the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), including two slender tomb figurines about a foot high.