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. 14. Bronz clasp with an anthropomorphic stylised tiger's head. Chinese Sung-period Fig. 15. Flying heron. Painting in lacquer. China. Han-period. (After Koslof ) Fig. 16. Bronze-claps with figures of two flying geese. Chinese. Han-period legs are covered with fur. An astonishing being indeed. At present I cannot give any explanation of it. The monster is attacked by a vulture, of which the head, the ear and partly the neck are visible close to the broken side of the frame. The beak of the bird is touching the back of the monster. The work is in my opinion Chinese and undoubtedly Han make. Its composition reminds us of Hunnic belt ornaments with griffins. Returning to the hairpin from the Great Wall I have to remark its affinity with the hairpins of Keszthely (Fig. 9.). By all its modest appearance, the identity of the rosetta turned, on the Central European examples, into debased forms of simple rings is interesting. The zig-zag lines attached