Doris Duke's Shangri la Comes to NYC This Fall

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

18th-century Indian rosewater sprinkler

NEW YORK---Ever the global adventurer, tobacco heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke was just 23 when she began collecting Islamic art in 1935, buying as she toured on her first honeymoon. By the time she died in 1993, she had amassed 3,500 objects spanning the Muslim world from Spain, through the Middle East and into Asia, dating from the early first millennium B.C. to the early 20th century. Her acquisitions, including the 18th-century Indian rosewater sprinkler, are housed at her Honolulu estate, Shangri La. Highlights of the collection, shown outside Hawaii for the first time, also will travel to six other American cities. 'Doris Duke's Shangri La,' Museum of Arts and Design, New York, Sept. 7-Jan. 6 [link]