Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 6. (Budapest, 1963)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Art in the Years 1959—1961

changes and were continually open to the public, except during the summer vacations. Regarding the new acquisitions to our collections we are happy to report considerable achievements. Purchase: Gift: Cession: Total: Pieces : Gift: Chinese collection 57 330 28 415 Japanese collection 20 13 9 42 Indian collection 20 26 1 47 Near Eastern and minor collections 24 52 — 76 Total : 121 421 38 580 Outstanding purchased pieces are the following: China: a wooden statue of Buddha, end of the 14th century (cf. Yearbook of the Museum of Decorative Art, vols III—IV, 1959, pp. 323—325), which was already placed under protection before purchase; a white glazed cup from the 11th century, similar to those excavated at Chii-lu hsien ; a large-sized enamel-painted screen with a European scene from about 1730—50 (an item in our exhibition called ,,The Painting of China"), and which was also registered before; two oil-paintings from the first half of the 19th century (which also figured in the exhibition ,,The Painting of China"); a silk carpet, interwoven with gold thread, second half of the 18th century; a Jc'o-ssu (silk tapestry) from the 15th century; a dragon-embroidered robe, 17th century; early and Han period jades and Han mirrors. Japan: medium-sized bronze Kannon-statue from the 17—18th century, brought to Hungary by Ágost Zichy in 1878, thus becoming the first important Japanese art object to be imported (cf. his paper: Study on Japanese Art, Philological and Artistic Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1879, Pl. XVII, in this report Fig. 3); four very finely carved netsulce-s, a percussion pistol from the 18th century, the muzzles are inlaid with gold and silver; an eighth century dry-lac quer (dakhan-shitsu) sitting statue of Shaka Nyorai (cf. Tibor Horváth: The Art of Asia. Fig. 47); a painting by Kano Ryosho (1768—1846), called ^Encounter in the Peach-garden" (cf. T. Horváth: op. cit. Fig. 52). India: gold-inlaid swords from the 17th and 18th centuries. Java: a gold-hilted Jcris from the beginning of the 18th century. Donation of the People's Republic of China The material of the exhibition (321 items) of modern products of industrial and popular art, sent by the People's Republic of China on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Hungary's liberation, and first exhibited in the Art Gallery (from May 2, to June 3, I960), was then shown in the country. The Institute for Cultural Relations allotted the entire material to our Museum in February, 1961. Almost every branch of Chinese industrial and popular art is represented and is also magnificent proof of the reconstruction taking place after the liberation of China. The kilns of Ching-te-chen succeeded in reviving