Chinese Ceramics
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Pope, John Alexander, 1906-1982
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content: John Alexander Pope Papers
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content: John Alexander Pope Papers / Series 4: Research Materials: Subject Files
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1988.01, Subseries 4.2
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Pope's research materials on Chinese Ceramics include information about techniques, motifs and specific types of pottery.  He placed most of this more general material at the beginning of the subject file. The remainder of the material was organized by dynasty and consists mainly of photographs. Dynasty folders sometimes include photographs of items identified as belonging to a different dynastic period. It is not clear if this is deliberate or accidental. Pope kept the photographs for a particular subject or dynasty together in single large folder. For the convenience of scholars interested in the provenance of objects, photographs that identify the owner or dealer of the object have been separated into individual folders.