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

Fig. 2. A part of the exhibition ,,The Painting of China (1890—1960)" (Fig. 7). Though they lack the dark brown patina of the old pieces, the care of execution and the force of motifs may still compete with the most beautiful specimens of the Ch'ing period (1644—1912). Unfortunately the art of bamboo-carving was so far passed over by books and papers published on the art of China. By their intimate character and high artistic standards, they deserve inclusion among the most interesting products of Chinese decorative art. Among the silk embroideries of Changsha and Hangchou there are several mounted as scrolls. They portray birds and flowers after the cartoons of well-trained artist-designers. It is remarkable that the rather delicate colouring used four or five years ago has already given way to more vivid colours. This was the second large donation made by the People's Republic of China; the first was received at the beginning of 1955 and consisted of almost 700 objects of both modern industrial and popular art (cf. Gyula Major: The Collection of New China's Industrial Art in the Eastern Asiatic Museum. Yearbook of the Museum of Decorative Art II, 1955, pp. 350—366). The recent gift has enabled us to assess and appreciate the development of the afore-mentioned arts during the past five or six years. Another donation of outstanding value was made at the end of October 1961 by the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, in return for a shipment of modern Hungarian material of popular and industrial arts forwarded by the Institute of Cultural Relations (Budapest) in 1960 to open an exchange relation. Tibor Horváth, on a study trip in Viet-Nam from May 23 to June 22, 1961 asked