Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 27. (Budapest, 2009)

Györgyi FAJCSÁK - Andrea FÜZES: Chinese Embroidered Screen from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

9. Detail of embroidery of the border showing metal-thread outlining of the attire of a scholar The screen held in the Chinese Collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts was purchased in Canton by Dezső Bozóky (Nagyvárad 1871 - Budapest 1957), who served as a military doctor in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (fig. 8). Between 1907 and 1909, Bozóky was ship's surgeon in the warships Szigetvár and Franz Joseph cruising in East Asian waters, and whenever the ships called into port he would buy pieces for his collection. He built up a particularly fine collection of Chinese textiles, covering a wide range of traditional Chinese silk embroidery from the turn of the 19

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h centuries: an altar curtain with large embroidered Taoist figural picture (inv. no. 57.53); furniture covers: covers for the front panel of the altar (inv. nos. 57.51-52; 57.159); series of rank badges (inv. nos. 57.63.1-2.-57.77); and an embroidered silk fireplace screen (inv. no. 57.54). The latter, a screen with a black-stained walnut frame, is particularly interesting because it is decorated with pieces of Chinese 10. Appliquéfitted into neck opening of tunic fragment 170