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The attendant at the museum spoke of Mr. Avery’s
pleasure in the collection as placed in the museum

and said he was a frequent visitor, wandering about
with the help of his two canes, enjoying the treasures
that are at once his hobby and his life’s work.

– THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, 28 JULY 1918

「博物館的一名工作人員提到，Avery, Jr.先生是博物館的常
客，他雖然行動頗有不便，需拄拐杖，但這也阻止不了他暢

遊於各個展廳之間，靜靜地欣賞著自己畢生的收藏。」

《布鲁克林每日鷹報》，1918年7月28日

through to 1993 at the Brooklyn Museum, and a number of Jingtai. The Samuel P. Avery, Jr., Collection
works were loaned to the Bard Graduate Center, New York of Chinese Cloisonné Enamels》；2011年於
exhibition Cloisonné. Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming 紐約巴德研究生中心舉辦的《Cloisonné.
and Qing Dynasties in 2011. Throughout the twentieth century, Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing
select cloisonnés from the Avery Collection have been Dynasties》的展覽中也包括了Avery, Jr.舊
deaccessioned by the Brooklyn Museum and have found their 藏的數件掐絲琺瑯器。在過去的一百多年
way into prominent museum and private collections around 來，布魯克林博物館曾釋出少數先生舊藏
the world, including an imperial cloisonné enamel dog cage, 的掐絲琺瑯器，多由其它博物館或世界各
acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 地知名收藏家所購入珍藏，包括一件罕有
in 1964; and a Qianlong period temple garniture, sold to the 的宮廷銅胎掐絲琺瑯狗籠，於1964年由費
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York 城藝術博物館購入，以及一組銅胎掐絲琺
in 1945, later sold in these rooms 15th March 2016. 瑯五供，於1945年由位於紐約州凱托納市
的Caramoor音樂藝術中心購藏，後於紐約
蘇富比2016年3月15日拍賣釋出。

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