Personal and Professional Life
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2012.01, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains little biographic material and only limited information about Aschwin Lippe's career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Subseries 1.1 [Boxes 1 and 2]. As a scholar and curator at the Met he visited and assessed museum collections as well as objects held by private collectors and dealers. These Notes on Collections comprise Subseries 1.2 [Boxes 3 and 4]. A highlight of his career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was his role in the Chinese Treasures Exhibition, Subseries 1.3 [Boxes 5 to 7].