Notes on Collections
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection / Series 1: Personal and Professional Life
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2012.01, Subseries 1.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.