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Fig. 4 A Cloisonné Enamel Double Vase, Qing Dynasty,
Qianlong Period. Gift of Samuel P. Avery. © Brooklyn
Museum, Brooklyn.
圖四 清乾隆 銅胎掐絲琺瑯雙聯瓶 Samuel P. Avery惠贈 © 布魯
克林博物館 布魯克林
Fig. 3 John Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Cloisonnés,
New York, 1912.
圖三 John Getz，《Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Cloisonnés》，
紐約，1912年

William Henry Goodyear (fig. 3). It was the first publication Collection of Ancient Cloisonnés》出版 (圖三)
in the United States on the subject of Chinese cloisonné and ，由William Henry Goodyear 題寫前言。此
remains an essential reference work on the material to this 書是當時美國第一本針對銅胎掐絲琺瑯器
day. 的出版物，至今仍為研究此領域的重要參

By 1919, the Avery gift of Chinese cloisonné enamels totaled 考工具書籍。
282 works, with further gifts of archaic bronzes and Qing 至1919年為止，Avery, Jr.總共向布魯克林
dynasty wall vases. 博物館捐贈了282件掐絲琺瑯器，另外還

The Avery cloisonné gift was widely celebrated as one of 有高古青銅器以及清代壁瓶。
the most important and significant gifts of Chinese art to an Avery, Jr.所捐出的掐絲琺瑯器，當屬極為
institution, comparable to the Bishop Collection of jades at 重要的博物館捐贈之一，可與Bishop捐贈
the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and today comprises the 予紐約大都會藝術博物館的玉器珍藏相
most spectacular examples of Imperial cloisonné enamels 比肩。今天，在這批藏品當中人們可以
commissioned for the 18th century Qing court in North 欣賞到北美所藏十八世紀宮廷掐絲琺瑯
America (fig. 4). The collection was celebrated in 1990 器中最為頂級的珍品 (圖四)。1990至1993
with the exhibition Blue of Jingtai. The Samuel P. Avery, 年，布魯克林博物館為慶祝紀念Avery,
Jr., Collection of Chinese Cloisonné Enamels, which ran Jr.的捐贈，策劃並舉行了展覽《Blue of

Lot 24 illustrated in John Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Cloisonnés, New York, 1912.
拍品編號24著錄於John Getz，《Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Cloisonnés》，紐約，1912年
22 PROPERTY FROM THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, SOLD TO SUPPORT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS