The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry Francis du Pont
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