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

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - F. Takáts, Zoltán: Some Notes to the Bronzes of the Chinese Collection II

Great Wall belonged, of course, to the Hun community. Ten of the arrowheads are of bronze. The alloys are not yet scientifically determined, but they are apparently different. In Old China it was a rule to use three parts copper and two parts tin for casting arrowheads. (According to K'ao kung chi inserted to Chou Ii.) But tin was often confused wdth other white metals, especially antimony or zinc. (The question is important enough to warrant strict scientific investigation.) The two largest specimens are bladed, but the groove on one of them are combined with a shorter solid part at the base, conforming to triangular solid arrowheads ; the other one is totally hollowed between all the three blades. Both of them originally had a thin peg. One of them is broken off. Eight pieces are of solid cast and very fine polish. Each has a socket-hole with a stump of a peg. Two pieces are of iron. Their points are triangular, solid and relatively short. It might be noted that all arrowheads of the migration period found in the Carpathian basin are of iron. Finally a small one of bronze has two wings only. Its shape is known from Hungary too but in larger examples. Having dealt with barbarians I would like to mention a new acquisiton of much later age which, in my opinion, is coeval to the vogue of our chinoiseries. The exotics of Chinese art-motifs were the northern and