{"id":8115,"date":"2025-10-04T16:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:49:24","slug":"%e3%80%8cthe-art-of-collecting%e3%80%8dfrom-private-collection-to-public-sharing-the-inheritance-philosophy-of-the-father-of-antiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/?p=8115","title":{"rendered":"\u300cThe Art of Collecting\u300dFrom Private Collection to Public Sharing: The Inheritance Philosophy of the Father of Antiques"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV17XGHz6EM4?t=2.4&#8243;]<div class=\"vcex-spacing\" style=\"height:30px\"><\/div>[vc_column_text]\nThe father of Chinese antiques is actually an American! When an American Jewish collector donated his entire collection to a Chinese museum, the ultimate meaning of collecting became clear. The essence of collecting is not the private hoarding of items, but the transmission of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 19, he entered the field of Chinese art and followed Alice Boney to understand the true meaning of business and art. With a forward-looking perspective, he gathered the &#8220;Chunhua Pavilion Inscription&#8221; and established a museum-level collection system of Chinese antiques.<\/p>\n<p>He did not keep these treasures for himself but sold the &#8220;Chunhua Pavilion Inscription&#8221; to the Shanghai Museum and returned the stolen antiques without charge, using his actions to break the stereotype of &#8220;collectors hoarding wealth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In Robert Hatfield Ellsworth&#8217; eyes, the ultimate value of collecting is not being locked in a private safe, but in the cross-cultural discussions among scholars from the East and the West. He proved with his entire life that true inheritance is to transform the collection from &#8220;being possessed&#8221; to &#8220;being understood&#8221;, allowing a thousand-year-old civilization to continue to grow in the hearts of people of different eras and different skin colors through an object.<\/p>\n<p>There is much more to collecting. That&#8217;s all for today. We&#8217;ll continue next time.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#038;#8221&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mr-shan","post_format-post-format-video","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mr-shan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}