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. 7. Javanese krises THE ART OF INDIA We illustrated the art of India in a part of the domed hall of the Industrial x\rt Museum with comparatively modest material since there is a standing exhibition of Indian Art in four rooms of the Ferenc Hopp Museum. The Indian material was not significant in Ferenc Hopp

's collection. It is the merit of Imre Schwaiger and Zoltán Felvinczi Takáts that the museum was gradually enriched by Indian, Farther Indian, Nepalese and Tibetan art treasures. Takáts was an intimate friend of Schwaiger who settled about the end of the last century in India. There he became a collector and art dealer of international reputation. Schwaiger was the first in the world who collected and exhibited objects of Nepalese art. Takáts visited him several times in his summer residence in London, later also in India, and he always returned with precious gifts for his museum. We owe our Gandhara collection and the most important Kushana relics of the Ferenc Hopp Museum entirely to Schwaiger'

s magnanimity. The few objects shown in the memorial exhibition illustrated some characteristical branches of India's art, especially industrial art. As to the textiles : samples of saris from Rajputana and Gujerat, handprinted and painted patolas, red "written" green covers (Mohammedan embroideries), different types of Northern-Indian embroideries, brocades of Banaras and Madras give us an idea of India's multifarious and artistic textile productions. The ceramic branch is similarly modest in number but manifold in types. Artistically glazed and ornamented pottery was developed only in Northern India under Persian influence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These original and rare pieces were imitated in Gujerat and later in Bombay, and such ones were presented in the exhibition. The exhibited objects of metal came from various parts of India and of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. First of all bronze statuettes of mytholo-