Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 10. (Budapest, 1967)
HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Reports on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1965-1966
We can conclude from the theme and from the joining of the borders in the uppermost and lowest parts of peonies stitched with blue and grey threads, that no more than one or two inches is missing from the original material between the left and center parts,, and, not more than two or three hand's width between the center and right parts. It is. most likely that even on the original panels, there were no more than seven of the literati. We don't know as yet who made it and when it was made. In its original condition, it was either an undivided wall-hanging or a folding screen of three parts. It is likely that this embroidery reserved many characteristics from the end of the Ming period's style. Referring to the Mandarin square on the picture, Prof. Schuyler Cammann dated it "made around 1730" when he visited our Museum. The embroidery was on display in our exhibition: Eastern Asiatic Silks, Lacquer and Porcelain. P. P. Fig. 8. Near East: bowl with polychrome lustre painting, 9 th century. Dr. Géza Fehérvári (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) donated this bowl to the Museum "in the memory of the first director, Dr. Zoltán Felvinczi Takáts" in 1965. The bowl is made of finely granulated cream-coloured clay. Low spreading foot, the bottom is slightly higher than the foot. The bowl is painted in polychrome lustre. Inside, the seven cross-hatched large medallions are painted in green, date-brown and honeyyellow lustre, with grape-like decorations in the squares. Between the medallions, near to the rim, there are again sectors painted in brown lustre. The interval between the medallions is densely filled with a decoration of green lines and yellow, green and brown dots. Outside, four large oval medallions with two rows of slantwise lines, between them, in three rows, vertically drawn green and yellow brush lines. The bowl was restored from fragments. The lustre painting is worn. Diameter: 19.8, height 6.3 cm. Inventory number: 65.67. The origin of the Near Eastern lustre-painted pottery is not yet clarified. Concerning the place of origin, the opinions are divided in locating it either in Mesopotamia, Egypt or Iran. In any case, the early wares were polychrome and the later ones monochrome. Both the form and the decoration of the bowl, here described, were fairly current in the Near East. To the grape-like decoration in squares, we can refer to the two bowls found at Fostat (one of them was probably made in Mesopotamia), to the decoration of lines and
