The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware  19735

Telephone: 302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Dauterman, Carl Christian, 1908-1989                                              

Title:               Carl C. Dauterman papers

Dates:             circa 1940-circa 1985

Call No.:         Col. 920         

Acc. No.:        13x96

Quantity:        18 boxes

Location:        14 J 1-3

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Carl Christian Dauterman was curator of the Department of European Decorative Arts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  He taught classes in European decorative arts and furniture and in American furniture for Columbia University, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Winterthur Museum.  He also lectured and wrote on these subjects.  He was particularly noted for his research on Sèvres porcelain, and the Metropolitan Museum published his book Sèvres Porcelain: Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth Century.

 

Born in 1908, Dauterman was a native of Newark, New Jersey.  He studied sculpture at the Newark School of Fine and Applied Art and earned a master’s degree in art history from Columbia University.  He worked at the Newark Museum (New Jersey) and at the Cooper Union Museum before beginning employment at the Met in 1953.  He served as Curator of Western European Arts from 1968-1973. 

 

Dauterman wrote a column about antiques for the New York World Telegraph and Sun.  He pioneered in using the computer in porcelain research.  He was a founder and served as first president of the American Ceramic Circle.  He was married and had three daughters.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

A highlight of the collection is Dauterman’s note cards about makers of Sèvres porcelain; as well, the collection includes some of his research notes about the subject.  Also included are correspondence, notes for his classes on European decorative arts and furniture and American furniture, some term papers written for his classes, and photographs and pictures of decorative arts and furniture.

           

 

ORGANIZATION

 

Photographs and pictures are found in boxes 10-14.  Note cards are in boxes 15-18.  Term papers written for Dauterman’s classes are in box 9.

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are mostly in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

 

Gift of Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Dana Dauterman Ricciardi, and Merrill Dauterman Wheeler, daughters of Carl Dauterman.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Ceramics - Photographs.

Curators.

Furniture - Photographs.

Porcelain - 18th century - France.

            Porcelain - Marks.

            Porcelain - Photographs.

Sevres porcelain.

Notes.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 14 J 1-3

 

 

Box 1:

 

Folder 1:          American Ceramic Circle

 

Folder 2:          American furniture class: syllabus

 

Folder 3:          American furniture: class notes

 

Folders 4-6:     American furniture: lectures  

 

Folder 7:          Button bibliography (page 2 only)

 

Folder 8:          Ceramic research notes

 

Folder 9:          Consulting

 

Folder 10:        Cohen, Leonard

 

Folder 11:        Columbia University

 

Folder 12:        Cooper-Hewitt Museum and Parsons School courses

 

 

 

Box 2:

 

Folder 1:          Correspondence, 1940s-1950s

 

Folders 2-3:     Correspondence, 1960s

 

Folder 4:          Correspondence, H-W: 1960s-1970s (chiefly early 1970s)

 

Folder 5:          Correspondence, 1970s

 

Folder 6:          Correspondence, 1970-1971: Northeast and Canada

 

 

Box 3:

 

Folder 1:          Correspondence, 1970-1971: South and Midwest

 

Folder 2:          Correspondence, 1980s and no year

 

Folder 3:          Dauterman, C.C.: articles by

 

Folder 4:          Dauterman, C.C.: biographical information

 

Folder 5:          Duffy, Tom: Carl C. Dauterman’s “European Antiques Tour,” 1954-1955

 

Folder 6:          Eby, J. Brian

 

Folders 7-8:     European decorative arts class

 

Folder 9:          European furniture: class notes

 

Folder 10:        European furniture: notes

 

 

Box 4:

 

Folder 1:          Exhibition proposals

 

Folder 2:          Folger Coffee Company collection of coffee pots

 

Folder 3:          Furniture notes

 

Folder 4:          Furniture: slide lists and notes

 

Folder 5:          Hyde Collection (Glen Falls, N.Y.)

 

Folder 6:          Krannert Art Museum

 

Folder 7:          Lectures, 1950s-1980s

 

Folder 8:          Lectures, 1980s

 

Folder 9:          Lectures, 1983-1985

 

Folder 10:        Lectures, 1984-1987

 

Folder 11:        Marks on silver, pewter, ceramics

 

 

Box 5:

 

Folder 1:          Meissen porcelain

 

Folder 2:          Metropolitan Museum of Art: correspondence

                        [see also files labeled Correspondence]

 

Folder 3:          Metropolitan Museum of Art: decorative arts galleries tour

 

Folder 4:          Metropolitan Museum of Art: Hearst Foundation and miscellaneous notes, 1950s-1960s

 

Folder 5:          Metropolitan Museum of Art: Widener-Dixon gift of Paul de Lamarie silver

 

Folder 6:          Notes on various subjects and places, 1973

 

Folder 7:          Pennsbury Manor, 1974

 

Folder 8:          Research: books in French

 

Folder 9:          Research notes

 

Folders 10-11: Rococo (genre pittoresque): lectures and notes

 

Folder 12:        Rugs

 

 

Box 6:

 

Folder 1:          Sèvres book

 

Folder 2:          Sèvres book: annotated page proofs

 

Folder 3:          Sèvres book: glossary of occupational terms

 

Folder 4:          Sèvres book: notes to editor

 

Folders 5-6:     Sèvres: makers and marks: manuscript

 

Folder 7:          Sèvres: makers and marks: correspondence re publishing

 

Folder 8:          Sèvres: makers and marks: for review with R.W.

 

Folder 9:          Sèvres: makers and marks: leftovers

 

Folder 10:        Sèvres: makers and marks: miscellaneous notes

 

Folder 11:        Sèvres: makers and marks: rejected illustrations

 

Folder 12:        Sèvres: papers about

 

 

Box 7:

 

Folder 1:          Sèvres research: incised marks

 

Folders 2-3:     Sèvres research notes

 

Folders 4-5:     Silver: lectures and notes       

 

Folder 6:          Smith, Huldah

 

Folder 7:          Stan Hywet Hall Foundation

 

Folder 8:          “Take a Seat” project

 

Folder 9:          Teaching, 1950s

 

 

Box 8:

 

Folder 1:          Teaching, 1960s-1980s

 

Folder 2:          Teaching notes, 1960s

 

Folder 3:          Wallace Collection

 

Folder 4:          Wedgwood Society of New York

 

Folders 5-6:     Winterthur/UD class: European decorative arts

 

Folder 7:          Wrightsman catalogue

 

 

Box 9: Term Papers

 

Folder 1:          Clark, H. N. B.

 

Folder 2:          Cogswell, E. A.

 

Folder 3:          Danill, Betty

 

Folder 4:          De Nood, L.

 

Folder 5:          Dolkart, A. S.

 

Folder 6:          Dwyer, E.

 

Folder 7:          Fleming, P. C.

 

Folder 8:          Houghton, J. R.

 

Folder 9:          Hundt, K. E.

 

Folder 10:        Knoppe, M.

 

Folder 11:        Longworth, J.

 

Folder 12:        McEhiney, T.

 

Folder 13:        McGehee, M.

 

Folder 14:        Menz, K.

 

Folder 15:        Peirce, D. C.

 

Folder 16:        Perkins, Bruce C.

 

Folder 17:        Rosenthal, P.

 

Folder 18:        Schuyler, David

 

Folder 19:        Sharp, L. C.

 

Folder 20:        Stewart, K. L.

 

Folder 21:        Stewart, Rick

 

Folder 22:        Tice, P.

 

 

 

Box 10: Photographs, pictures, drawings

 

Folder 1:          Ceramic International Exhibition, 1958: Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts

 

Folder 2:          Classical art

 

Folders 3-4:     Furniture: chairs, sofas, settees

 

Folder 5:          Furniture: drawings and photos, 1950s, early 1960s

 

Folder 6:          Furniture: drawings and photos, 1950s, early 1960s (probably mostly Welsh furniture)

 

Folder 7:          Furniture: English and Welsh: drawings and photos

 

 

 

Box 11: Photographs, pictures

 

Folder 1:          Furniture: mirrors, frames, and miscellaneous pieces

 

Folder 2:          Furniture: tables

 

Folder 3:          Furniture: tables, chests, desks, etc.

 

Folder 4:          Kenwood, 1965 [Kenwood House, England]

 

Folder 5:          Krannert Art Museum?  Wrightsman Collection?

 

Folder 6:          Miscellaneous items (including glass, tapestries, rock crystal, rooms, clocks and watches, etc.)

 

Folder 7:          Museo Arquelogico Nacional (Madrid)

 

Folder 8:          Paintings and prints

 

Folder 9:          People

 

Folder 10:        Porcelain [continues in next box]

 

 

 

Box 12: Photographs, pictures

 

Folders 1-3:     Porcelain

 

Folders 4-5:     Porcelain and ceramics [continues in next box]

 

 

 

Box 13: Photographs, pictures

 

Folder 1:          Porcelain and ceramics

 

Folder 2:          Sèvres porcelain

 

Folder 3:          Silver and other metals

 

Folder 4:          Silver

 

Folder 5:          Slides

 

Folder 6:          Theatrical figures on Liverpool tiles – sent by Mr. Tilley

 

Folder 7:          transparencies and negatives

 

Folder 8:          Wilson, R. Thornton: collection

 

Folder 9:          Wood grains

 

 

Box 14: Pictures; audiotapes

 

Folder 1:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Chandeliers, scones, lamps

 

Folder 2:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Clocks

 

Folder 3:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Enamels, cloisonné, lacquers

 

Folder 4:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Furniture, mantels

 

Folder 5:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Linens and laces, tapestries, needlepoint

 

Folder 6:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Paintings and prints

 

Folder 7:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Porcelain and ceramics

 

Folder 8:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Rugs

 

Folder 9:          Pictures from auction catalogs: Silver and Sheffield plate, pewter, metalwork

 

Folder 10:        Pictures from auction catalogs: Sculptures and carvings (including ivory work and bronzes)

 

Folder 11:        Audiotape: Dauterman and Jessie McNab acoustiguide to Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Folder 12:        Audiotape: ACC Montreal, 1971, tape 3, Webster

 

 

 

 

Box 15:           Notecards: Sèvres makers, A-L (continues in next box)

 

Box 16:           Notecards: Sèvres makers, L-end and other notes

 

Box 17:           Notecards: bibliography and other notes

 

Box 18:           Notecards: Meissen, Rococo, “Rolodex” cards, and other notes