Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art.

• Author: GEROW, EDWIN
• Position: Review

Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art. By BARBARA LIPTON and NIMA DORJEE RAGNUBS. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp. xviii + 295. $29.95 (paper).

The Jacques Marchais Museum is located on Staten Island and houses a representative ensemble of circa twelve hundred Tibetan items that began as a personal collection in the 1930s, but has since been augmented with other purchases, notably that of the Bendix estate. Many of the items were acquired from or in China during very troubled times when many objets d'art sacre's found their way into private hands. Jacques Marchais, a pseudonym of the founder-collector, Edna Coblentz, was evidently a colorful...