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.

Fig. 2. Mirror. Bronze. Chinese. S hang - Yin- period Fig. 3. Mirror. Bronze. Chinese. Han-period before my visit to China by Mr. Géza Szabó. These heads in question are completely shaved, with deep-set eyes and hook-shaped noses. I wonder whether they may be popular representations of Budhist monks (third to ninth century A. D.) or humoristic conceptions of Ch'in-Shi-Huang ti, whose hooked nose was famous and his non-Chinese type also well-known (third to second century B. C). Arriving in Peking I hastened to visit the Great Wall, where I met a lad selling some small antics picked up supposedly somewhere in the next vicinity. I bought some arrow-heads partly of bronze, partly of iron and a notched pin of yellow bronze (Fig. 8.), the indentation of which reminded me of peasant wood-cuttings common in Hungary and chiefly in Transsylvania with the Székely s

. The principal difference between these and that of my acquisition Fig. 4.a Fragment of an offering vessel. Fig. 4.b Fragment of an offering vessel. Bronze. Sino-Hunnic artifact. Han-period Bronze. Sino-Hunnic artifact. Han-period