Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 9. (Budapest, 1966)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Felvinczi Takáts, Zoltán: A Short Supplement to Some Notes to the Bronzes and Other Objects of the Chinese Collection III

3. Round bronze bowl, China We have to consider first of all the defiantly closed lips in both cases. They are describing the same wavy line, ending in two deep cornerholes. Those on the bronze dish have in each of its cavity a tusk. But why the stubbornness in the case of a t'ao-t'ie ? Those masks in general have no squatted limbs as here they have on the bronze vessel. Its model may be a squatted figure like our wall supporter. The eyes of the bronze lion's head are anthropomorphic, the clay ones are that of a bird of prey, as suggested above. The curled locks are in both cases traced in ornamental curvity. Judging from his looks I may put the bronze dish later —• about the Yuan time —than the squatting clay demon. The three seal characters on the central part of the bottom : chin shu lii, could be interpreted as ,,In company of lute and books."