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Collection Creator:
Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
Lippe visited many public and private art collections, especially during the 1950s and 1960s when he was Associate Curator of Far Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He kept notes on each collection, including assessments of individual objects. These notes, often on scraps of paper, are divided into museum collections, private collections including dealers, and miscellaneous collections by topic or city. This subseries also includes object lists from specific dealers, sometimes with correspondence. It is not clear if these were items being offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or were of potential personal interest to Lippe. There is no information in the collection about his personal art collection.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
Collection Citation:
The Aschwin Lippe Collection. FSA.A2012.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Identifier:
FSA.A2012.01, Subseries 1.2
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Aschwin Lippe Collection
Aschwin Lippe Collection / Series 1: Personal and Professional Life
Archival Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3e66e1a16-aaa2-4733-98d0-7fdd3815af4b
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-fsa-a2012-01-ref115