These materials include articles and notes on Indian temple art and architecture, plans of cave temples, and iconography in temple sculpture. Photographs by others constitute a large portion of the background materials. Some are dealer photographs of individual sculptures but most are from institutions including the Archaeological Survey of India, the American Institute of Indian Studies and various museums.
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.