The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Jean McClure Mudge
Title: Chinese Export Porcelain
Research Papers
Dates: 1980s
Call No.:
Acc. No.: 95x19, 96x58, 02x144
Quantity: 46 boxes
Location: 35 K 1-5, 35 L 4-5
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Jean McClure Mudge is the daughter of Robert B. and Eva
Colby McClure. She graduated from
Dr. Mudge has been a lecturer at
She has written many articles in the fields of American studies and Chinese export porcelain. In addition to two books on Chinese porcelain, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America and Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835 (which began as her thesis for the Winterthur graduate program), Dr. Mudge has written books about ceramics and glass at the Essex Institute, Emily Dickinson, the Italian poet Lauro de Bosis (about whom she has also written a film script), and Mussolini.
Her documentary films on Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Lyon, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and other subjects, have received several awards and have been shown on PBS and at American embassies through the United States Information Agency. She received a number of grants to fund production of her films from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Humanities Media Fund, various state humanities councils, private foundations, and individuals.
Dr. Mudge is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, the Modern Language Association, the Society of Winterthur Graduates, the Oriental Ceramic Society, the Society for Values in Higher Education, and the San Francisco Bay Area Video Coalition. She is married to Lewis Seymour Mudge, Jr., a theologian. They have three children.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
The collection includes research notes,
correspondence, copies of articles, photographs, copies of inventories, and
drafts of Dr. Mudge’s thesis and books on Chinese export porcelain. Some of the papers document the process of
turning her thesis on Chinese export porcelain into a published book. As well, there is information from a
conference on Chinese porcelain which she attended in
In addition to the books which are still housed with
her manuscript collection, Dr. Mudge sent some volumes which were transferred
to the Printed Books and Periodicals Collection. A list of them is attached to this finding
aid.
ORGANIZATION
The file folders are arranged in alphabetical order. Some oversize files were placed in a separate
box,
PROVENANCE
Accession 95x19 and 96x58: Gift of Jean McClure
Mudge, in memory of her parents Robert B. and Eva Colby McClure.
Accession 02x144 was transferred from the Joseph
Downs Papers (Col. 76), which in turn had been transferred from the Winterthur
Archives. It is not known how Dr.
Mudge’s files came to be placed with those of Joseph Downs.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Porcelain, Chinese – History.
Photographs.
Correspondence.
Research notes.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 34 K
1-5, 34 L 5
Folder 1: Adams,
John: Chinese export porcelain
Folders 2-3: Adhyatman:
“Antique Ceramics Found in
Folder 4: Albany
Institute of History and Art: photos
Folder 5:
Folder 6: Albarello:
photos
Folder 7: All
underglaze blue and white: photos
Folder 8:
Folder 9: American
Folder 10: Archaeology
of Chinese export porcelain
Folder 11:
Folder 12:
Folder 13:
Folder 14: Armorials
Folder 15: Armorials:
photos
Folder 1: Art
magazines
Folder 2:
Folder 3: Asian Trade and European Influence …,
1500-1630
Folder 4:
Folder 5: Ayers,
John: article on the Baur collection
Folder 6:
Folder 7: Beverage
forms
Folders 8-9: Bibliography
Folder 10: Bibliography:
miscellaneous collections of Chinese export porcelain
Folders 11-12: Blue
and white porcelain
Folder 13:
Folder 14:
Folder 15:
Folder 1:
Folder 2:
Folders 3-4:
Folders 5-6:
Folder 7:
Folder 8:
Folder 1:
Folder 2:
Folder 3:
Folder 4:
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Folder 7:
Folder 9:
Folder 10:
Folder 11:
Folder 12: Chinese
ceramics, history of
Folder 13: Chinese
ceramics:
Folders 14-15: Chinese
export porcelain: book revisions
Folder 16: Chinese
export porcelain: book manuscript for December 1982
Folder 1: Chinese
export porcelain: book: preface
Folders 2-3: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter I
Folders 4-5: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter I: notes
Folders 6-7: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter II
Folders 8-9: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter II:
Folder 10: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter II: photos from Princessehof
Folders 11-12: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter III
Folder 13: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter III: The Dutch
Folders 1-2: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter IV
Folders 3-4: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter V
Folder 5-6: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter VI
Folder 7: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter VI: drawing (sketches)
Folder 8: Chinese
export porcelain: book: chapter VII
Folder 9: Chinese
export porcelain: book: appendices
Folder 10: Chinese
export porcelain: book: appendices and glossary
Folders 11-12: Chinese
export porcelain: book: appendix: services/prices
Folders 13-14: Chinese
export porcelain: book: glossary
Folder 15: Chinese
export porcelain: book: bibliography
Folder 16: Chinese
export porcelain: book: book reviews and correspondence
Folder 1: Chinese
export porcelain: book: illustrations, all chapters
Folder 2: Chinese
export porcelain: book: illustrations, all chapters: photos
Folders 3-9: Chinese
export porcelain: book: photographs
Folders 10-14: Chinese
export porcelain: book: Clare’s comments, 1-5
Folder 3: Chinese
export porcelain: correspondence
Folder 4: Chinese
export porcelain for
Folders 5-7: Chinese
export porcelain: general
Folder 8: Chinese
export porcelain in southeast Asia
Folders 9-11: Chinese
export porcelain: letters and photos
Folder 12: Chinese
export porcelain: line drawings
Folder 13: Chinese
export porcelain: photos: extras (black and white)
Folder 14: Chinese
export porcelain: photos: extras (color)
Folder 15: Chinese
export porcelain: photos: surplus prints
(unspotted)
Folder 1: Chinese
export porcelain: photos:
Folder 2: Chinese
export porcelain: photos:
Folder 3: Chinese
export porcelain: photos:
Folder 4: Chinese
export porcelain: photos: polychrome, 18th century
Folders 5-6: Chinese
export porcelain: photos: polychrome, 19th century
Folder 7: Chinese
export porcelain: photos: tureens,
Folder 8: Chinese
symbolism, borders
Folder 9: Chocolatero
Folder 10:
Folder 11:
Folder 12:
Folder 13: Correspondence,
general
Folder 14: Crosby
Forbes, H. A.: on the
Folder 15: Cummings,
Abbott Lowell: Rural Household Inventories
[photocopy]
Folder 16: Customs
records and tariffs
Folder 17: Decoration
on Chinese export porcelain: sources
Folder 18:
Folder 19:
Folder 20: D’Entrecolles,
from 1712 and 1722, Buschell
Folder 21: Dietrich
Brothers collection: photos
Folder 1: Drake,
Sir Francis, and Sebastian Cermano in
Folder 2: Drawings
Folder 3: Earle,
Alice: China Collecting in America
[photocopy]
Folder 4:
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Folder 7:
Folder 8:
Folder 9:
Folders 10-13: Essex
Institute
Folder 1: Essex
Institute: photos
Folder 2: Exhibit
records
Folder 3: Ewen,
Douglas
Folder 4: Ewen,
Douglas: photos
Folder 5: Famille
Rose, origins of
Folder 6: Farley,
Malcolm F.:
Folder 7: Fauntleroy
arms: photos
Folder 8:
Folder 9:
Folder 10: FitzHugh
pattern
Folder 11:
Folder 12:
Folder 13: Forbes,
J. M.
Folder 14: Forbes,
Robert Bennet
Folder 15: Forbes,
Robert Bennet, 1838
Folder 16: Forbes,
Robert Bennet, 1839
Folder 1: Forbes,
Robert Bennet, 1839-1840
Folder 2:
Folder 3: Gallardo
Folder 4:
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Folder 7: Godden,
Geoffrey, on English blue and white and “burnt”
Folder 8: Goldstein,
Jonathan,
Folder 9:
Folders 10-12: Hatcher
Collection
Folder 1: Hatcher
Collection
Folder 2:
Folder 3: Hispanic
blue and white ceramics
Folders 4-5:
Folder 6:
Folder 7:
Folder 8:
Folders 9-10: India
Office: photocopies
Folder 11:
Folder 12: International
Conference on Ancient Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, First, 1982
Folder 1: International
Conference on Ancient Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, First, 1982
Folder 3:
Folder 4: Japanese
porcelain
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Folder 7:
Folder 8:
Folder 9: K’ang
Hsi: photos
Folder 10: Kendi
Folder 11:
Folder 12: Kilburn,
Richard S.: Transitional Wares and Their
Forerunners [photocopy]
Folder 13: Krase,
Jean: correspondence
Folder 14: Kuan-Yin
Folder 15: Levy,
Bernard and S. Dean: correspondence
Folder 16: Levy:
photos:
Folder 17: Library
of Congress: papers: CEP II
Folder 18:
Folder 2: Markings,
Monair
Folder 3:
Folder 4:
Folders 5-7:
Folder 8;
Folder 9: Measurements:
Chinese export porcelain
Folder 10: Mexican
art:
Folder 11:
Folders 3-5:
Folder 6:
Folder 7:
Folder 8:
Folder 9:
Folder 1:
Folder 2:
Folder 3:
Folder 4:
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Folders 7-8:
Folder 9:
Folders 10-12: Miscellaneous
Folder 13: Miscellaneous:
photos
Folder 1: Morgan:
late 19th century Mandarin
Folder 2: Morgan:
late 19th century Mandarin: photos
Folders 3-4: Museum
of the American
Folder 5: Museum
of the American China Trade: blue and white
Folder 6: Museum
of the American China Trade: historical pieces
Folder 7: Museum of the American China Trade:
historical pieces: photos: sauceboats and creamers
Folder 8: Museum
of the American China Trade: manuscript list
Folders 9-11: Museum
of the American China Trade: photos: finished b&w’s
Folder 12: Museum
of the American China Trade: photos: Mandarin plate
Folder 13: Museum
of the American China Trade: photos: study shots and notes
Folder 1: Museum
of the American China Trade: photos: study shots and notes
Folder 2: Museums:
Chinese export porcelain correspondence
Folder 3: National
Geographic
Folder 4: Nelson, Josiah, House: research report
on archaeological excavations (
Folder 5: “
Folder 6:
Folder 7:
Folder 8:
Folders 9-10:
Folder 11: New-York
Historical Society
Folders 12-13: New-York
Historical Society: Museum of the City of
Folders 1-2:
Folder 3:
Folder 4:
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Notes for article in Blue and White – Smart Gallery show
Folder 7: Object
records
Folder 8:
Folder 9:
Folder 10: Oriental
Ceramic Society
Folder 11: Overseas
Folders 12-13:
Folders 14-15:
Folder 2: Peale,
Raphaelle: Chinese export porcelain
Folder 3:
Folder 4: Permissions
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Folders 7-9:
Folder 10: Photo
costs
Folder 1: Photo
costs (con’t.)
Folder 2: Photocopies
from an album
Folder 3: Photography
payments
Folder 4: Photos
from A. L. Liebman
Folder 5: Photos
from an album
Folder 6: Pintado,
Behrens: photos
Folder 7: Pintado
II, Riba I & II: photos
Folder 8: Porcelain
Folder 9: Porcelain
forms: 16th and 17th centuries
Folder 10: Porcelains
and terra cottas of
Folder 11: Pre-Columbian
pottery
Folder 12:
Folder 13:
Folders 3-4:
Folder 5: Research
notes
Folders 6-7:
Folder 8: Rose
Medallion and Mandarin patterns
Folder 9: Russell
& Co.
Folder 10: Sanchez-Navarro:
photos
Folder 11: Sharpe
photos: urns and R.I. urns
Folders 12-13: Shipwreck
china
Folder 1: Shipwreck
china (con’t.)
Folder 2: Shipwreck
china: photos: Spanish Armada bowl
Folder
5: Slides done by John Orders
Folder 6: Society
of the
Folder 7: South
and Chinese export porcelain
Folder 8:
Folder 9:
Folder 10: Still
life by Juan Zurbaran
Folder 11:
Folder 12:
Folder 13:
Folder 14: T’ao
Ya: early 20th, notes
Folder 15: El
Templo Mayor: Excavaciones y estudios, 1982,
Folder 16:
Folder 17:
Folder 1: Transitional/landscape/woodblocks,
vase shapes, figures, bottles
Folder 2: Vandekar:
tobacco leaf [catalogs from Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge]
Folder 3:
Folder 4:
Folders 5-7:
Folder 8:
Folder 9: Volker,
T.
Folder 10:
Folder11:
Folder 1: Western
taste in Chinese art
Folders 2-3:
Folder 4:
Folder 5:
Folder 6:
Folder 7: Yixing
Folder 1:
Folder 2: Inventories
Folder 3: Inventories:
Folders 4-5: Inventories:
Folder 6: Inventories:
Folder 7: Lane:
article on later Islamic pottery:
Folders 8-11: Miscellaneous
Folder 12:
Folder 13: Notes
about
Folder 14: Off-prints
of journal articles
Folder 15: Smith, Philip S. “Porcelain, Pottery, and Glass of China,
Folder 16-18: Torrey,
Frederic Cheever
Notecards (acc. no. 95x19) and microfilm
Note: box 30 contains a reel of microfilm from the
New York Public Library, containing part of the Constable-Pierrepont
Collection, a selection from Box 26 entitled “Notes on the Trade of China,
taken chiefly from observations made at Canton in the Season of 1796 &
corrected at London June 1798”
Negatives and photos (acc. no. 95x19)
Photos (mostly color) from albums (acc. no. 96x58)
Folder 1: Bibliography of books and periodicals from Jean Mudge’s collection
Folder 2: pamphlet in Chinese
Folder 3: book in Chinese about porcelain
Folder 4: exhibition catalogs
Folder 5: Denney, Reuel. American
Studies in
Folder 6: El
Galeon de Acapulco
Folder 7: El Galeon de Manila
Folder 8: McCutcheon,
James M. The Interaction of Asia and
Folder 9: Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereniging van Vrienden van de Ceramiek, no. 101/102 and 103/104
Folder 10: Volker,
T. Porcelain
and the Dutch East India Company
Folder 1: Chapter
I: Europe and the
Folder 2: Chapter
I: Footnotes
Folder 3: Chapter
I: Correspondence
Folder 4: Chapter
II:
Folder 5: Chapter
II: Footnotes-America and the
Folder 6: Chapter
III: The Trade at
Folder 7: Chapter
III: Illustrations: Fig. 1-8
Folder 8: Chapter
III: Footnotes-The Trade at
Folder 9: Chapter
IV: Export Porcelain-Its name and special nature
Folder 10: Chapter
IV: Footnotes
Folder 11: Chapter
V: The Porcelain at Ching-Te-Chen and
Folder 12: Chapter
V: Illustrations: Fig. 8-31
Folder 13: Chapter
V: Footnotes
Folder 14: Chapter
VI: Porcelain Exportation to
Folder 15: Chapter
VI: Footnotes
Folder 1: Chapter
VII
Folder 2: Chapter
VII: Illustrations: Fig. 32-61
Folder 3: Chapter
VII: Footnotes
Folder 4: Chapter
VIII: The Decline of the Export Porcelain Trade to
Folder 5: Chapter
VIII: Footnotes
Folder 6: Chapter
IX: The Forms of Export Porcelain Made for
Folder 7: Chapter
IX: Illustrations: Fig. 62-73
Folder 8: Chapter
IX: Footnotes
Folder 9: Chapter
X: The Decorations of Export Porcelain Made for
Folder 10: Chapter
X: Illustrations: Fig. 74-119
Folder 11: Chapter
X: Footnotes
Folder 12: Chapter
XI: The Dating of Export Porcelain Made for
Folder 13: Chapter
XI: Illustrations: Fig. 120-134
Folder 14: Chapter
XI: Footnotes
Folder 15: Footnotes
Folder 16: Bibliography
Folder 17: Chapter
III-XI: Fig. 1-134: Photos
Folder 1: Appendix
Folder 2: Appendixes
Folder 3: Chapter
VI-XI: Porcelain Exportation to America-File 1
Folder 4: Chapter
VI-XI: Porcelain Exportation to America-File 2
Folder 5: Illustrations: letters of permission,
commissions illustrations
Folder 6: Original List of Illustrations:
Intermediate Stages: Illustrations and Captions
Folder 7: Illustrations
Dropped
Folder 8: Permissions
to quote from manuscripts
Folder 1: Extra
Copies, Bibliography, Captions, List of Illustrations, etc.
Folder 2: Cover
Sheets for Book
Folders 3-4: Mudge
Photographs
Folder 5: Extra
Photos not used
Folder 6: Photograph
Correspondence, after
Folder 7: Earlier
Versions
Folders 8-9: Notes,
etc.
Folder 10: Notes
(Mudge)
Folder 11: Mudge
and Naeve List and Notes
Folders 12-14: Notes
Folder 15: Porcelain:
Notes
Folder 16: Research
Notes
Folder 1a: Mudge
Thesis
Folder 1b: Mudge thesis: Photostats for research:
document in Chinese; certificate of insurance for Minturn & Champlin; and
certificate of ownership for John Jhuel(?) (Ph 237, 238, 239)
Folder 2: Critique
of McClure Thesis by Jessie Poesch
Folder 3: Mudge
Comments, Corrections etc.
Folder 4: Correspondence
Folder 5: Cammann
Correspondence
Folder 6: Correspondence-Mudge
Folder 7: Mudge
Correspondence
Folder 8: Correspondence
with Jean M. Mudge
Folder 9: Correspondence
and Loose Photographs
Folder 10: University
Publishers
Folder 11: University
Publishers
Folder 12: Jean
Mudge Material
Folder 13: Jean
Mudge Materials
Folder 14: Appraisal:
photostat from Connecticut Historical. Society
Folder 15: “The
Great Seal of Maryland,” paper by Clayton Hall, 1886
Folder 16: Ridgeway
Folder 17: