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. 5.a Girdle-pendant. Bronze. Sino­Hunnic work. Han-period Fig. 5.b Girdle-pendant. Bronze. Sino­Hunnic work. Han-period is that on the Far-Eastern work the floral origin is not quite turned into geometrical indentation. On the top we see a pointed bud of lotus. On the stem, regularly changing, a two-lobed rosetta with two divergently placed tufts of herbs, indicated by delicate engraved lines, is found on the petals of the rosetta and on the bud forming the pointed top. The object is sup­posedly a hairpin, the end of which is broken down. Works of homogeneous nature have been found in graves of the early middle ages in Hungary together with other bronzes and bones appear­ently of Eastern Asiatic origin (Fig. 9.). The famous grave-field, discover­ed by Rev. V. Lipp (1881), is situated on the lake Balaton and was called until recent times after its neigh­bouring town from Keszthely. A large part of the finds excavated there are of the period of the earliest Hunnic settlers in Hungary, before the founda­tion of Attila's empire. Nevertheless the bulk of the finds must be some centuries later. An imperfectly cast tag of red bronze ends in anantelope's head vith pointed long ears and long nose (Fig. 10.). This kind of antelope is an East­ern-Asiatic game and the whole casting of the red bronze is absolutely non­Chinese. Thus I cannot doubt of the origin of it. The forming of the back­side also conveys the impression of a Hunnic work (Fig. 10. b). Together with this object I cannot omit to quote a plaque of silver bronze representing in openwork an antelope of the above quoted sort, equally with pointed long ears and slim nose. But the thin legs of the animal are those of a bird of pray (Fig. 11. a, b). The left foreleg is dropped to the ground, the right one raised upwards, planted firmly against the already worn frame ot the plaque. The upper limbs of the

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