John A. Pope Asian Ceramics and Art Collection
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pope, John Alexander, 1906-1982
setName: label: See more items in
content: John Alexander Pope Papers
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1988.01, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The information about Pope's private collection is incomplete. In addition to Chinese and Japanese ceramics, he also collected Japanese sword furniture. The photographs and other materials relating to the collection were scattered throughout his papers. Some had numbers that matched the catalog cards provided by his son and daughter. The catalog is not complete; the cards describe the object, where and when purchased, cost and sometimes the subsequent disposition of the object. Many photographs were unnumbered but marked as belonging to the collection. Some of the items were not clearly identified as part of the collection although the photographs were found together with items that were so identified. There is some material about donations and sales of items from the collection.