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  By the late 1940s Brundage had assembled a considerable collection of ancient Chi-
              nese bronzes, highlights of which were seen in his loans to his hometown museum, the 
              Art Institute of Chicago, in 1948 (figs. 8.12, 8.13). The Art Institute’s second curator of 
              Asian Art, Charles Fabens Kelley (1885–1960), commented on the quality: “Although 
              the [Institute’s] famous Buckingham Collection of Chinese bronzes, an excellent mea-
              suring stick for quality, is in an adjacent gallery, the Brundage Collection can hold its 
              own with it. Taken together, these two collections give a more complete range of the 
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              best types of Chinese bronzes than can be found anywhere else in America.”  Kelley 


























































                                                                                               figure 8.11. Ran fangding. Early Western 
                                                                                               Zhou period, 11th century bce. Bronze, 
                                                                                               height 10 in. (25.4 cm). Avery Brundage 
                                                                                               Collection, Asian Art Museum of San 
                                                                                               Francisco, B60B2+.







                                                                A Unique Pair: The Bronze Rhinoceros and Its Collector, Avery Brundage  211
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