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The Brooklyn Museum announced the receipt and

installation of a munificent gift from Mr. Samuel P.
Avery, and that the objects are now on view in the

first floor central section of the Museum. The gift in
questions makes a climax to the already celebrated
Avery collection of Chinese cloisonné enamels…The

new installation has also involved a rearrangement
of the entire collection, already known as the largest

and most important of its class in the world.

– ART & LIFE MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1919

布魯克林博物館正式宣佈獲贈Samuel P. Avery, Jr.先生的精美收

藏，現展於博物館一樓中央展廳。此贈藏將久負盛名的Avery
收藏之中國掐絲琺瑯器推向高峰······博物館原有館藏已堪稱是
Brooklyn Museum building: interior. View: Asian Art: Chinese Gallery [01], 12/1938. Floor: 2. (Photo: Caroline LeFevre, Brooklyn Museum)
世界上數量之最且質量最精，加入了新捐贈的藏品之後，不免
布魯克林博物館，中國展廳，[01]，12 / 1938，二樓 (照片：Caroline LeFevre，布魯克林博物館)
需要將陳列重新安排分配，以不負捐者慷慨之心。」

《藝術與生活雜誌》，1919年11月

Avery had retired from his business circa 1886-9, but the Avery約於1886至1889年間退休，但其藝 However, it is Avery Jr.’s substantial and generous gift of 除此以外，Avery, Jr.於1909至1911年間又
gallery, described as ‘probably the largest art business in 廊（於當時應屬全國規模最大）則在其子 Chinese cloisonné enamels to the museum between 1909 and 捐贈出了自己收藏的銅胎掐絲琺瑯器。這
the country at the time’, continued under the leadership of Avery, Jr.的帶領下繼續經營。Avery, Jr.每 1911 that was the most celebrated. The Avery Collection of 批精美的掐絲琺瑯不僅在當時的美國可謂
his son, Samuel P. Avery, Jr.. Avery Jr. traveled to Europe 年在歐洲居住半年，持續的為藝廊搜購藝 Chinese Cloisonné Enamels was not only the most important 頂尖，即便是時至今日在世界範圍內的同
for half of each year, continuing to acquire paintings for the 術品。直至十九世紀末二十世紀初，市場 and largest of its type in America, but it remains today one of 類收藏當中也絕可稱得上是最為重要的一
business. However, by the turn of the century, competition 競爭逐漸激烈，而Avery, Jr.又有著繼承來 the most important holdings of Chinese cloisonné worldwide. 個。
was becoming keener and, having inherited a substantial 的優厚財富，故此先生開始從藝術商轉為 Records pertaining to Avery Jr.’s collecting of cloisonné 關於Avery, Jr.建立掐絲琺瑯收藏過程的記
wealth, Avery Jr. became more interested in collecting than 收藏家。先生於1902年退休，1909年移居 enamels are scarce. Whilst it is very likely some were acquired 錄頗少，我們只能推測其一部分的收藏是
dealing. He retired from the gallery in 1902, eventually moving 康州哈特福市。 during his travels to Europe to acquire paintings for the 於旅行歐洲時購得，另一大部分則很大
to Hartford, Connecticut in 1909. 因為Avery, Jr.生長於布魯克林，所以他與 gallery; most were likely acquired at auction in New York. 可能購於紐約拍賣會。根據當時的報紙記
As a Brooklyn native, Avery Jr. had developed a long-standing 布魯克林博物館的感情深厚。先生曾於 Newspaper reports from the time record his name as a buyer 載，Avery, Jr.的名字時常以買家的身份出
relationship with the Brooklyn Museum by the later years 1898年向該館捐贈了一批西方繪畫收藏。 at the American Art Association auctions of the collections 現在當時美國藝術聯盟的一些重要拍賣場
of the nineteenth century, gifting Western paintings to the of Thomas E. Waggaman (1905), Heber R. Bishop (1906) and 次，如Thomas E. Waggaman (1905)、Heber
institution in 1898. Rufus E. Moore (1919). By the early years of the twentieth R. Bishop (1906) 及Rufus E. Moore (1919) 的

16 PROPERTY FROM THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, SOLD TO SUPPORT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS