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

SOME OF OUR NEW ACQUISITIONS Fig. 3. Small chest of clay covered with green glaze, Han dynasty. Height: 15 em., length: 22.2 cm., width: 15 cm. Purchased. Inventory number: 65.3. The sides with a thickness of a finger enclose a brick-like form and are covered with a thick layer of green glaze, with the exception of the inside and the bottom. In the bottom, there is a circular hole, in the front of" the top edge, we find an oblong formed incision, below this a quadrate in relief with four rounded decorations, resembling nailheads, imitating the plate of a lock. This nail-head decoration is repeated seven times on the top of the chest, proportionately dispersed. These are connected with blackish incised lines, both diagonally and horizontally. The chest is standing on four feet, one of them is slightly damaged. Round the sides a relief line, this is unconnected in certain places. On the top, a little to the right of the center are two characters written with black but hardly recognizable (Pan ?...). Recently The Yellow River Reservoirs Archaeological Team, published a paper, Excavations of the Han Tombs at Liu Chia Ch'u in Shanhsien, Honan Province in Kaogu Xue bao, 1965, nr. 1, in which (p. 142 and plate VII/4) we find a similar chest. The form is basically the same, the nail-head decorations are somehow more complicated and the drawing of the incised lines are different from our piece. The measurements (23X 16.2X X 17.1 cm) are almost identical with those of our piece, and the Liu Chia Ch'u find is also covered with green glaze. On this latter piece, in the imitation part of the plate of a lock, we could notice two minor gaps. For the use of such a small chest, we might refer to a san tsai glazed money chest from the T'ang period (Wen Wu Ts'an K'ao Tsu Liao, 1955. nr. 9, pp. 152 — 3, ditto, 1956. nr. 8, pp. 31 — 2) which seems to be a variation of the further developed Han period type. P. P.