Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Ferenczy, László: The Collection of Corean Industrial Art. A Gift of the Corean People's Democratic Republic

The black lacquered nuptial box, furnished with fittings, served to keep silks and sewing articles. The bride moved to his man after the wedding, following Corean customs, with such a box. The nuptial box was often decorated with the ten animals symbolising long life. They kept powder, oil and other cosmetics in the fitted reddish-brown lacquered toilet case (Fig. 9.). The ensan-table served for keeping ink, ink-block, water dropper, pencil and other utensils for drawing. Properly speaking it is a desk. In conclusion we have to mention several products of the smaller branches of industry and folk's art, belonging all to the daily life of the Corean people in the past. Before introducing modern fire-weapons, the fabrication of bow was an important craft in Corea. Bows were made of wood, horn or iron. Bows of wood were for smaller, the other ones for greater distance. Wooden bows were made of pak-tal tree. Archery had its last great rise in the Imdin-war (1592—98) and after the Manchurian conquest, when the bow was still highly important as a weapon. To-day it is a mere sport practised mostly by young men, mainly at harvest-feasts. The reflex-bow we have in the collection, originating from the end of the past century, demonstrates the characteristic short form of the Corean bows. It is made of wood and horn Fig. 10. Quiver of paperwith a covering of bark. The implements to it are mache. 18* century the ring, serving for drawing, and the utensils for the reparation of arrows. The arrows were made of bamboo with points of stone or wood. The quivers were made of wood usually for ten arrows. The quiver of papier mache from the eighteenth century, decorated with an inkpainting of ripe grapes and a squirrel, is a fine specimen (Fig. 10.). Grapes were in Corean painting, as in Chinese, one of the most preferred motives. Special Corean products are the hats of horsehair in their traditional eylindrical Corean fashion. The finished ones were covered with black lacquer. Women's bags, fruit-holding baskets and other objects were also made of horsehair. Stone carvings are represented in the collection by a very finely wrought ink-stone of the nineteenth century and a modern inkstand of steatite of differently coloured layers. Coreans were always extraordinally skilled in working bamboo for various