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
type Buddha in bronze, derived of Siam's classical age in the sixteenth century. A gilt wooden statue of a dharmapala of the seventeenth or the eighteenth century, inlaid with pieces of glass, is one of the remarkable pieces too. Burmese furniture is made in thoroughly traditional style even in the second half of the nineteenth century. The copious group of jewelries is a striking illustration of the fact that the common people of the age of feudalism and colonial exploitation invested most of their incomes in jewelries, which could be kept and hidden easily. Burmese crafts were represented in the exhibition by painted lacquered objects, and vases, boxes, cups etc. of silver and other metals. An exceedingly interesting piece of the Burmese portion was a picture on silk framed by a table, representing the event of the capture and imprisonment of the last Burmese king by the British, transforming the country into a British colony. Besides the mentioned plastic works, we illustrated the art of Siam, by numerous newly acquired objects. Siam is the only state of the Indies which was able to preserve her independence until our days. Her art shows many Siamese peculiarities in spite of the fact that it came to being under Indian influence during the first centuries of our era, and it felt the impact of Chinese art since the sixteenth century. (E. g. its ceramic art was developed exclusively after Chinese models.) THE ART OF THE XEAR EAST The Near Eastern group of onr Museum of Far Eastern Art has been created except the collection Zichy of archaeological character, nearly entirely after World W T ar II. Its fund?mental part was formed by the material ceded by other state museums, b jt it was enriched by the incorporation of important private collections and significant purchases too. A considerable part of thib, collection has figured already in the exhibition of Near Eastern art organised by the Museum of Industrial Art in 1945, in connection with the famous Oriental tapestries of the Industrial Art Museum and its most exquisite textiles. The arts and crafts of this vast area, embracing a broad scale of space and time, were shown in a rather mosaic-like picture in the exhibition. As a part of this exhibition, the material of the collection Zichy was made available to the Hungarian public and the experts for the first time. Jenő Zichy (1837—1906) organized three important archaeological expeditions to the Caucasus and Siberia at the end of the nineteenth century. From his journeys he returned with an important archaeological and ethnographical collection which he presented to the city of Budapest. The Ferenc Hopp Museum took possession of it in 1937. A large part of the collection comes from the Northern Caucasus and the surroundings of Minussinsk, Siberia. The finds are derived from the Stone Age, the Copper and Bronze Ages and the first centuries A. D. (with the finds of the Sarmatian and Alanic cultures). The Siberian material covers a large span beginning with the finds of the Chineseinfluenced Karasuk culture, developed at the end of the second millennium B. C, up to the finds of the Hunnic and Altaian Turk cultures.
