Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 7. (Budapest, 1964)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts 1962

TIBOR HORVÁTH REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE FERENC HOPP MUSEUM OF EASTERN ASIATIC ARTS IN 1962 New Acquisitions Purchase Cession Gift Total Chinese coll. Japanese coll 30 12 20 98 102 99 280 1 129 114 120 288 Indian coll. Other colls. 1 1 Total 69 579 3 651 The 651 pieces are listed under 568 inventory numbers. Our donors : Dr. Zoltán Felvinczi Takáts, professor and first director of our Museum, presented a Chinese painting. Irisov, Higmatov and Dudarova, members of the Uzbek Institute for Oriental Studies (Taskent) presented an earthenware plate decorated with pigeons, and Bikkhu Amritananda, vicepresident of the World Association of Buddhists, donated pages of a sutrabook from Nepal written in the 12th century. Among the purchases of the Museum, the important items are: China : carved jade objects, mainly from the Ming and Ch'ing periods {figures 1, 2), & famille verte porcelain vase from the K'ang-hsi period (figure 3) a gilded bronze statue of Maitreya-Bodhisattva (figure 5), a large carved wooden screen with a silk painting in the middle, a round blue and white porcelain box from the Ch'ien-lung period (figure 4), an inkstone in box from the Ch'ienlung period (figure 6), Manjusri or Indrani seated on a lion (bronze figure, partly gilded) (figure 7), and one of the last paintings of Chi Pai-shi: Pomegranates (figure 8). Japan: a 17th century brocade, with the embroidered figure of Kannon from the second half of the 19th century; a red and gold painted vase from Kutani, c. 1870 (figure 9). India: Durga, black marble statue, painted, from the 19th century (see: Ervin Baktay, Guide to the Indian collection of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, Budapest, 1957, plate 14). Java : a richly illustrated wayang manuscript (see Gy. Kovács study in this issue of the Yearbook). Persia: a pair of gold earrings, enameled, 19th century.