Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 10. (Budapest, 1967)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Reports on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1965-1966

The size of the vase is unusual also, but primarily a larger surface is for the advantage of the colour scheme of cloisonné. It seems to me, that because of this the motifs of this vase are not very significant, that is, a series of lotus scroll with simple stem with white, blue, yellow, brick-red and pale green colours on a turquoise-blue background. The enamels showing the same unevenness, the result of the firing, and the same hardness, amounting almost to rigidity of a crystalline character shown on the colour plate A (in linear magnification) in his book, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels. Faber d? Faber, 1962, by Sir Harry Garner. T. H. Fig. 5a — b. China : brush-holder, bamboo carving. End of the 16

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th century. Height : 14.5 cm. Purchase. Inventory number: 65.28. The master carver who made this article took the advantage of the thick wall to exhibit his skill. The depth of the carving encloses three levels, (higher, middle and lower)