'A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt' shows that Charles Lang Freer may not always have known what he was buying, but he knew what he liked.
The collector and the gallery he endowed are known mostly for East Asian art and the work of American artist James McNeill Whistler. But Freer was briefly smitten with Egyptian objects, which in 1907 he called “the greatest art in the world,” a comment emblazoned on the exhibition’s wall. The retired Detroit industrialist bought Egyptian objects only from 1906 to 1909, before abandoning his efforts because of rising prices and the proliferation of forgeries offered to him.
That still makes them among the most ancient artifacts in this show, though not as venerable as the glazed tiles from a destroyed palace that are about 3,200 years old and a wooden funerary mask with glass eyes, designed to fit over a mummy’s face, made as much as 3,500 years go.
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