Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)
HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Major, Gyula: Memorial Exhibition of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts: The Art of Asia
Fig. 3. Combs and hairpins from the Szemére Collection In a separate show-case there were the combs and galahairpins from the eighteenth and nineetenth centuries, partly lacquered, but mostly of bone. They belong to the collection of Attila Szemere. In the neighbourhood there was a collection of modern metallurgy, a part of the Dány collection, consisting of jewels, jewel-boxes, ornamental buttons, boxes for cosmetics, from the end of the Tokugawa period and the nineteenth century. Three show-cases served to lodge the principal types of Japanese ceramic art from the sixteenth century up to the recent times. In the first case mostly stone-ware were exhibited, first of all vessels for tea-ceremony of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Satsuma and Kyoto-products of different types and ages. The second case has shown the classical Japanese porcelains of Seto, Kutani, Eiraku etc. emphasizing mainly their technical and decorative peculiarities. The third show-case, gathered mostly from the collection Fettick, illustrated the Japanese ceramic art of the first decades of the twentieth century (china and stone-ware). Attached to it there was a sakezuki-service of stone-ware and porcelain of the beginning of the twentieth century from the collection Dány. We demonstrated a rich section of our Japanese collection, the collection of Japanese weapons, in five tableshrines. These samples represented mainly the art of the Japanese sword and select pieces of its important accessories, the groups of kozuka, tsuba, fuchi, kashira, menuki. Our collection of this kind is important. Ferenc Hopp collected with predilection both the complete equipped swords and independently of them the tsubas, fuchis, kashiras, menuhis, kozukas, these wonderful masterpieces of Japanese industrial art. But this charming and attractive part of Peter Vay' s collection was already exhibited in 1908 in the Museum of Fine Arts, the first home of the Eastern Asiatic art collection in Hungary. The collection of these small treasures of the museum
