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Samuel Twyford Peters.
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Samuel Twyford Peters (1854-1921) was Director of Williams financial health, and his discerning taste and deep knowledge as
& Peters, the coal company he established with Richard H. a collector to ensure that only works of the highest quality entered
Williams. He was also involved in other coal ventures, Director of the collection. He and his wife, Adeline Elder Peters (1859-1943),
Hanover Bank, and involved in numerous social and philanthropic developed one of the leading collections of Chinese ceramics
organizations throughout the New York area. In addition to being a and jades, which they regularly lent and donated to the Museum.
life member of the American Numismatic Society, President of the Between 1912 and 1916, they donated approximately 400 jades to
Riding Club, and member of the University Club, the Racquet and the Museum, followed by further donations of Chinese and Korean
Tennis Club, the Metropolitan Club, and the New York Yacht Club, ceramics, and manuscript pages of the Qur’an. They also lent to the
he was a devoted supporter of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum’s 1916 Exhibition of Early Chinse Pottery and Sculpture.
and an avid collector of Chinese ceramics and jades. In 1914 he Five years after her husband’s death, Mrs. Peters donated several
became a Trustee and Fellow in Perpetuity of the Museum, and went hundred more examples of Chinese pottery and porcelain to the
on to serve on the Executive Committee, Committee on Purchases, Museum. She, too, was an avid collector and philanthropist, who
Auditing Committee, Committees on Oriental Art and European was well regarded for having organized and directed the Red Cross
Decorative Art, and the Special Committee on Salaries and Wages workroom at the New York Riding Club during the First World War.
and Museum Economics. He took his responsibilities on these She was also a member of the Colony Club, Cosmopolitan Club,
posts seriously, using his business acumen to guide the Museum’s and Colonial Dames of America.

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