Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 24. (Budapest, 2006)

New Acquisitions 2004-2005 (Mónika Bincsik, Emese Pásztor)

NEW ACQUISITIONS The Japanese collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts has acquired contemporary Japanese lacquer artefacts. After a long time, the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts had the opportunity again to enrich its collection of lacquer artefacts. The new acquisitions are first-class pieces of contemporary Japanese lacquer art, that is, heirs to an ancient tradition that adopt to present-day demands and thus keep an ancient art alive. The small collection, representative of several techniques and various types of artworks, was purchased with the support of the National Cultural Fund from the Wajimaya Zenni workshop of Wajima in 2005. 1. Sugar caddy with a spoon H: 6.2 cm D: 8.5 cm Inv. no.: 2005. 2.1-3. The basis of the maki-e (sprinkled gold powder) decoration is made up of black lacquer layers applied on the wooden body. The small sized spoon, also coated with black lacquer and decorated with a narrow ring of sprinkled gold powder, can be put against a small indentation in the cylindrical body. The lid is coated with green lacquer on the inside and with black lacquer on the outside. The entire object is finished in highly polished, jet-black roiro lacquer. This lacquer layer serves as a basis for the modem, abstract-like maki-e pattern of finely curved, serpentine lines. Certain intersections of the lines are filled up with fine sprinkled gold powder. The function, the shape and the motifs of the sugar caddy are modem, European-like, yet the technique, along with the materials used, is traditionally Japanese. 2. Coffee-set (cup and saucer with a coffeespoon) H: 6.5 cm D: 7.5 cm Saucer D: 15 cm Inv. no.: 2005. 1.1-3 The wooden saucer is almost entirely flat and