Dobrovits Aladár szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 5. (Budapest, 1962)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Major, Gyula: Memorial Exhibition of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts: The Art of Asia

Fig. 6. A detail of the Japanese Exhibition ; statues and modern screens Among the pre-war acquisitions we only had one original cup of bronze. Now we possess a number of exact copies of Koryo-age metal cups, gifts of the Northern Corean Government. We owe to the same also embroideries, reminding of Chinese pieces of the eighteenth century, further jewels, semi-precious stones, ornaments of costumes etc. of the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. It was for the second time that the mural paintings of grave 3 of Anak, opened up in 1949, were exhibited in Hungary in faithful fullsize copies together with the models of the graves. The copies and the model of the grave were made by order of the Hungarian State by members of the Corean Artists' Association in 1954 and they were exhibited for the first time outside Corea by the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1956. These wallpaintings belong to the most significant art treasures not only of Corea but of Eastern Asia as well. The Anak grave N° 3 is that of Tung Sou, some-time military governor of Liao Tung (in the neighbourhood of Corea) during the State of Ch'in (317— 420). In 336 he had to fly into the Corean Kingdom Kokuryo, which he also governed for 22 years. One of the nine murals represents him on the "jadethrone", surrounded by his courtiers, another shows his wife with her courtladies. The other murals show the parade of Tung Sou, the kitchen of the palace, its larder, its coach-house, a draw-well, the activities of watering cattle and corn grinding. The copies are painted in original size with perfect accuracy. As the wall-paintings of the grave, covered again during the war suffered further damages, the copies of our museum will serve as models for latter works of restoration.