Vadas József (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 11. (Budapest, 1991)
Új szerzemények 1990 - Hopp Ferenc Kelet-Ázsiai Művészeti Múzeum
an original painted in the 16th —17th centuries. Purchased from Károly Kaltcneckcr. Inv.no.: 90.10.1. 2. The Hundred Children Coloured silk gobelin (ke-si) with handpainting, mounted on paper, with stretching rods. China, last third of the 19th century. Size: 175 x 105 cm. The large size, detailed composition of this magic picture promising many children and the survival of the family represents children (a hundred boys with two adults) in groups of various sizes boating, playing, making music, eating etc. in a serene landscape interspersed with flowers and lucky emblems (lotuses, peonies, magic mushrooms, bats etc.). The contours are woven, the details painted. Certain contours are stressed using gold. Purchased from Mrs. József Csikány. Inv.no.: 90.22.1. 3. Teapot Hard pottery. Yixing, China, beginning of the 20th century. Signed. Height: 9 cm, diameter at the bottom: 6.5 cm. The teapot is made of brown hard pottery and has a flat, rounded, fine form. It is the work of Chen Pan-gen, a noted ceramics master in Yixing at the beginning of this century. It belongs to the "slopingshouldered with a flattened spherical body" type from the eighteen basic Yixing forms of the 19th century; the handle of the top is shaped like a buffalo nose. Signed at the bottom; another mark on the inside of the lid as yet unidentified. One side of the pot is decorated with a flowering pium branch incised before firing, on the other side is an inscription of ten characters about teadrinking. Both are signed: the plumflower branch by Tou Shi-zhong, the calligraphy by Liu Yong. Purchased from Mrs. Gusztáv Mödlinger. Inv.no.: 90.24.1.2. (Györgyi Fajcsák) 4. Hatsu-hana Praying under Gongen Waterfall at Hakone Colour print. Japan, c. 1841-42. Signature: Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga (17971861). Size: 37.5 x 29 cm. From the series of "Stories of Legendary Wise and Virtuous Women" (Kenjo reppuden). Published, lba-ya Sensaburo, c. 1841-42. Purchased from Károly Kaltenecker. Inv.no.: 90.11.1. 5. Seated Woman Holding a Flute, with Hand-drum Colour print. Japan, between 1818 and 1844. Signature: Gokotei Sadakage (active 181844, a pupil of Kunisada). Size: 34 x 24.5 cm. In a dark blue inset the circular figure of the lucky god Hotei. Purchased from Károly Kaltencckcr. Inv.no.: 90.12.1. 6. The Actor Ichikawa Kuzo Colour print. Japan, before 1833. Signature: Gototei Kunisada (1786-1864; before 1833 he used the name Gototei). Censor's seal and publisher's mark (Tsutaya Kichizo). Size: 33 x 20 cm. (A man standing by a door. Colours: two kinds of blue and brownish-red, pale greyish-violet.) Purchased from Károly Kaltenecker. Inv.no.: 90.13.1.
