Robert A. Ellison, Jr., a painter and long time art collector in New York, is donating a collection of 250 pieces of American and European ceramics to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Experts estimate the value of the collection at between $15 million and $20 million. It will be displayed at the museum on a new mezzanine level of the Charles Engelhard Court beginning in May as the second phase of the renovation of the American Wing is concluded. The Met has agreed to allow the collection to be shown by itself at first and to prepare a book about it as a condition of the gift. According to the New York Times, “Mr. Ellison’s gift fills a significant gap in the Met, whose holdings of American art pottery had been spotty. ‘It was adequate,’ admitted Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, the museum’s curator of American decorative arts. ‘But this collection transforms it. Now it will be extraordinary.’
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