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art world. To have the leader in the field retire is in the nature of a catastrophe. I shall try to ar-
range to spend a couple of days in New York toward the end of next month on my way to Europe
and I hope that Frank will have prepared the list which we discussed of objects that should have
my attention, bearing in mind, of course, my motto, ‘top quality, low price.’ ”
20. Bartholomew, “The Avery Brundage Collection,” 120, and “Working with Mr. Brundage,”
2–3.
21. For comprehensive discussion of animal shapes and bronze casting in the Yangzi region,
see Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes, 30–36.
22. The other is a late Shang bronze vessel in the shape of a buffalo (1919.103) in the collection
of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University. See Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes, 116
fig. 158.
23. There seems to be some confusion as to the year, 1935 or 1936, when Brundage actually vis-
ited the Burlington House exhibition. Guttmann has convincingly argued that it must have been
1936; see The Games Must Go On, 201.
24. Guttmann, The Games Must Go On, 202.
25. Different authors commenting on the Burlington House exhibition give different numbers
of objects included. Here I follow Mr. Na Chih-Liang’s account, as he was one of the Chinese
assistants who was directly involved in the exhibition organization; see his “The London Exhibi-
tion of 1935.” According to Na Chih-liang, not all the objects sent were actually shown because
of the space limitation. He stated 786 objects from China were actually on view, while the four-
volume exhibition catalogue (Royal Academy, The Chinese Exhibition) listed 691 objects from
China.
26. Shangraw, “Avery Brundage,” 33–35.
27. Ibid., 30.
28. Little, “René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé”; Lefebvre d’Argencé, “The Avery Brundage I Knew.”
29. Lefebvre d’Argencé, “The Avery Brundage I Knew,” 63.
30. Shangraw, “Avery Brundage,” 35.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., 33.
33. Cahill, “More On Avery Brundage.”
34. Kelley, “Exhibition of the Brundage Collection of Chinese Bronzes,” 12. For the Bucking-
ham Collection, see chapter 1 by Elinor Pearlstein in this volume.
35. Weigle, “The Man Who Has Everything.”
36. Sickman’s assessment is preserved in the Asian Art Museum archives in manuscript form,
dated 24 March 1959.
37. Lefebvre d’Argencé, “The Avery Brundage I Knew,” 63.
38. Lefebvre d’Argencé, “The Magic World of the Chinese Bronze” 113.
39. Shangraw, “The Early Years of Avery Brundage’s Collection,” 37.
40. Ibid., 38. For C. T. Loo, see chapter 6 by Daisy Yiyou Wang in this volume.
41. Bartholomew, “Working with Mr. Brundage,” 7–8; see also Bartholomew, “The Avery
Brundage Collection,” 127.
42. For description of the clay section-mold technique, see Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes,
37–44, and “Shang Ritual Bronzes.”
43. For analysis of the inscription, see Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes, 528–30.
44. Chen, Yinxu buci zongshu, 505–7.
45. Ibid., 301–5.
46. For a study of the Seven Bronzes of Liangshan, see Lawton, “A Group of Early Western
Chou Period Bronze Vessels.”
47. Higuchi, “Studies of Western Zhou bronzes,” 26.
48. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes, 535.

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