里埃斯科（R.F.A. Riesco）的中國陶瓷收藏，並非單一私人趣味的產物，而是 20 世紀上半葉英國中國陶瓷研究與鑑藏網絡中，多位早期**Oriental Ceramic Society（東方陶瓷學會）**核心成員審美取向的高度匯聚。其藏品來源清晰、展覽與著錄完備，原本構成英國地方公共收藏體系中極為罕見、具有學術厚度的中國陶瓷序列。里埃斯科辭世後，這批收藏隨其住宅一併轉入 London Borough of Croydon 名下，成為地方博物館向公眾開放的重要文化資產。然而，2013 年，克羅伊登市政府以財政理由提出並實施部分藏品的市場化出售，不僅引發學界與博物館界的強烈反彈，也使這一原本建立在公共信託基礎上的收藏體系，成為英國博物館制度史上最具爭議的案例之一。
 
The Chinese ceramics collection assembled by R.F.A. Riesco was not merely the expression of a single private taste, but rather a crystallisation of the aesthetic values shared by several leading early members of the Oriental Ceramic Society in the first half of the twentieth century. With well-documented provenance, extensive exhibition histories and solid scholarly references, the collection represented a rare and academically substantial body of Chinese ceramics within the British local public museum system. Following Riesco’s death, the collection passed into the ownership of the London Borough of Croydon, entering the public domain as a cultural trust. The decision taken in 2013 to sell part of this collection for financial reasons, however, provoked widespread controversy and transformed what had been a model public collection into one of the most contested episodes in the recent history of museum governance in the UK.