Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections

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Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image Collection

Chipstone Collections

The Chipstone Foundation was created in 1965 in part to preserve and interpret the decorative arts collections of Stanley and Polly Stone of Fox Point, Wisconsin. Over 100 works of Early American furniture and more than 270 ceramic objects and 135 prints dating from the 17th to early 19th century, belonging to the Chipstone Foundation, are now represented in a searchable database produced at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, General Library System with Chipstone support. More than 1,250 images (full views and selected details) have been digitized, based primarily on original photography shot for the Chipstone Foundation by Gavin Ashworth, a professional photographer who works out of New York City. Virtual exhibits containing some of the Chipstone Collections are also available on their website at www.chipstone.org.

The Chipstone image collection is in the process of being updated. Chipstone ceramics entries are being expanded to contain full catalogue information written by Leslie B. Grigsby, Curator of Ceramics and Glass at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Eventually, all the images—both ceramics and furniture—will contain thorough catalogue information written by experts in the field.

Longridge Collection

The Longridge Ceramics Collection has been called "the finest private collection of British delft and slipware in the world." Over 500 objects in the collection are documented and illustrated in "The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware." This beautiful and informative 2-volume catalogue was written by Leslie B. Grigsby, with contributions by Michael Archer, Margaret Macfarlane, and Jonathan Horne (London: Jonathan Horne Publications, copyright 2000). Presented in this online image database are illustrations and short descriptions for the ceramic pieces.

The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts also provides online the full text and content of the published catalogue, including timelines, introductory essays, bibliography, and full scholarly documentation on the pieces.

A final, soon-to-be-completed phase of this project will establish links from the online images to relevant sections in the efacsimile catalogue.

Hint: The "Chipstone Accession No." or "Longridge No." link in the Is Part Of field may be used to retrieve all images associated with that object.

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