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

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - F. Takáts, Zoltán: Some Notes to the Bronzes and Other Objects of the Chinese Collection. III

Fig. 2. Head of a demon. Bronze. T'ang period. China There are queer protuberances on the skull. The bushy menacing eyebrows extend almost the full height of the forehead, while seeming to be composed of independent thin oblique folds. Without a doubt these eyebrows can be compared to those of the small bronze head from our China Museum in Budapest (Fig. 2.) which I treated in Artibus Asiae XI. 1—2, ,,Inspired by Wu Tao-tzu". The elongated close-set rather bulging eyes lend assistance to the demoniac impression. (Cf. the third eye of a demon holding a threshing club, R. F. Martin, Zeichnungen nach Wu-Tao-tze, Pl. 42.) The non-human shape of the musculus temporalis is puffed up because of exertion. It seems to slant considerably because of being misplaced below the outer rim of the eye. The eyes, nose, and lips are comparatively large. The eyes are fully open, their whites a little raised similarly to the nictitating membranes of birds and the pronounced nostrils flare.