Vezető a Déri Múzeum kiállításaihoz II. A Déri gyűjtemények. 2. javított kiadás (Debrecen, 2001)

125 THE ORIENTAL COLLECTION OF THE DÉRI MUSEUM church thank depicts the goddess Green Tara. Among the gilded bronze statuettes the best ones are the figures of tutelary gods Beg-tse and Sridevi. Islamic art and craft is represented by Persian ceramics, carved copper pots, enameled coffeecups, and a hookah. The silver inlaid metal works from Bidar belong to a special form of Indian applied art. On the right-hand side of the hall, you find Japanese ivory carvings: the figurái netsuke carvings attached to the girdles of kimonos, some okimonos, and other carved figurines. The most notable carvings are again the figure of Hotei, the God of Fortune and the lion-masked group. In the first Japanese lacquer-display case, various kinds of finery-boxes and medicine keeping inros (attached to the girdle with the netsuke carvings) are arranged. The most beautiful one among them is an inro box, with a figure of a poet standing in front of a waterfall, made by one of the masters of the Kajikawa family. The gold-lacquered cabinet-wardrobe applied with bone is an example of Japanese exports of lacquered works to European countries. In the second Japanese lacquer-display case, there are cups, pipes and a food-keeping set of several parts. The most prominent piece here is a square suzuribako. It was used for keeping writing utensils in and made about 1800 A. D., depicting the Shinto shrine of Sumiyoshi. A representative metal work is the big and pierced bronze thurible with a fantastic animal figure on its top. The large size root carving standing by itself depicts an immortal Taoist, resting on his crutches. Among the oriental weapons, the most characteristic weapon types in Asian countries are displayed: gilded and silvered Turkish, Persian, and