Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 6. (Budapest, 1963)

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

Fig. 11. Bronze girdle pendants. Migration period. Hungary western barbarians. I found and acquired one representation of them in a Budapest antique shop (Fig. 7 a

—b). It is a real curiosity, representing a horseman without his horse, which was already missing. The rider, once mounted, is standing in his stirrups rather than sitting in the saddle. His body is straight, upright with a sudden turn to the left. On his head he wears the typical, extremely high headdress (bashlyk) with fluttering wings, covering the neck too. The fashion of this headgear is only an exaggeration of the silk capes found by Kozlov's expedition to Noin Ula. Both arms hang down. The right hand seems to grasp some weapon which has been lost. The face is not Chinese. Its long, thin, pointed beard is like that of the Huns on Kano Tanyu's sketchy copy of a composition attributed to Wu T'ao-tzu

5 (Fig. 8). The eyes are open, the eyebrows thick. The lachrymal glands are visible. A curious observation on the find is also of some importance, i. e. the pockets of the horseman hanging from the right and left of the girdle. There is a perpendicular central stripe on them and rows of oblique ones to the right and the Fig. 10. Bronze girdle pendant. Charehan. After Sir Aurel Stein