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LEGACIES OF CLOISONNE

AND JADE

THE AVERY AND WOODWARD

GIFTS TO THE BROOKLYN

MUSEUM

溢彩流光

布魯克林博物館Avery及Woodward之惠贈

Lots 17 and 24 illustrated in John Getz, Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Cloisonnés, New York, 1912.
拍品編號17及24著錄於John Getz，《Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Cloisonnés》，紐約，1912年

The history of Chinese art in North America is a story told 十九世紀末至二十世紀是北美中國藝術品 museum in the world, today it houses one of the country’s 館館藏中有著美國最為重要的亞洲藝術品
through the decades of the late nineteenth and twentieth 收藏的一段輝煌時期，時許多重要私人藏 most significant collections of Asian art. 收藏之一。
centuries. It was during this period that collectors, museums, 家、博物館、古董商及策展人大量購買各 As with all great museums, the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings 如同其它重要的博物館一樣，布魯克林博
dealers and curators sought to collect an immense array 種中國藝術精品，而這些藝術品隨著時間 in Chinese art are attributable to a small number of generous 物館豐富的中國藝術品館藏有賴於少數捐
of Chinese works of art, much of which is now housed in 的推移，很多最終成為了美國各大博物館 benefactors and patrons, whose connoisseurship and 贈人及贊助人的慷慨解囊，他們獨到的眼
the great institutions across the United States. Indeed, 的館藏。正因如此，今天的美國博物館中 passion for collecting would not only shape the institution’s 光以及對於藝術的熱忱，不僅深深影響了
North American museums today now possess the greatest 有著在亞洲之外最為豐富精美的中國藝術 holdings, but would also transform the scholarship and 館藏內容，更藉由大方贊助學術研究來擴
collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia. 品收藏。 wider appreciation of their respective subjects over the past 展大眾對此藝術類別的欣賞，影響後世百
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century bore witness 在十九世紀末至二十世紀初的這段時間 hundred years. 年之久。
to the founding of America’s first museums and institutions, 裡，美國第一批博物館及學院開始創立，
Two of the most significant gifts made to the Brooklyn 二十世紀初，布魯克林博物館接受的最
which led to a race to acquire encyclopedic collections of art. 其為了豐富館藏，積極搜購各類藝術精
Museum during the early years of the twentieth century are 重要的兩批藝術品捐贈為Samuel P. Avery,
The Brooklyn Museum, formerly the Brooklyn Institute of 品，以奠定基礎。布魯克林博物館（前身
the cloisonné enamels collected by Samuel P. Avery, Jr. (1847- Jr. (1847-1920) 收藏的銅胎掐絲琺瑯器以及
Arts and Sciences, is one of the oldest museums in America, 為布魯克林藝術及科學學院）成立於1895
1920), and the jades and hardstones acquired by Colonel Robert B. Woodward上校 (1840-1915) 收藏的
founded in 1895. Originally planned to be the largest art 年，為美國最古老的博物館之一，現今該
Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915). This present deaccession 玉器。本次拍賣由布魯克林博物館所釋出

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