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

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Felvinczi Takáts, Zoltán: Some Notes to the Bronzes of the Chinese Collection. I.

patina, the back of which is covered by a furrowed pattern of some textile impressure, except the half-globular knob. The whole character and technical quality of this unusual relic points to the Han period. One pendant, ending in three points, like ears of Sino-Hunnic vessels, I have bought in a curio shop in Peking (Fig. 5. a.). It has a square opening in order to let 1he hanging strap pass. The casting of this girdle pendant is unwrought and shows misformations of casting on the back (Fig. 5. b.), just like those inside of the wall of a vessel, which in my opinion, may be called SinoHunnic (Fig. 5. a, b,). I present here both the inner and outer sides of the broken piece of such a vessel with a decorative ribbed pattern on its outer side. The extension of this fashion to the west can be verified in the Museum of New Delhi, enriched by the late Sir Aurel Stein's excavations in the Niya Region and Charchan respectively which abound in Han-time Chinese relics, delivering thus firm historical data. I had no opportunity to follow the further march of such bronzes to the west. I could not discover the same fashion in our country. I cannot report anything illuminating on the age of two small heads, seemingly finials of rods (Figs 6, 7.). They were presented to the museum already Fig. l.a Ceremonial axe. Jade. Chinese. Fig. l.b. Ceremonial axe. Jade. Chinese. Han-period or earlier Han-period or earlier