Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 12. (Budapest, 1970)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Fux, Herbert: The Far Eastern Collections of the Austrian Museum for Applied Art

Fig. 4. The Second Chinese Room The second Chinese room, which is reserved for pottery and porcelain (fig. 4), offers not only essentially favourable possibilities, but some limitations too. The arrangement begins with Pan-shan urns, to be continued with figurai funerary ceramics and vessels made during the Han period and Wei tomb figures. The T'ang period is well represented with glazed, painted or unglazed figures and also with ceramics of different kinds like pieces with three colours decoration, stoneware and early porcelain. In the collection the Sung wares are not inferiorly represented. They give a good introduction to the richness of the forms and types, including the Yingch'ing and the Ting, the Northern celadon, the Yüeh-yao, the Lung-ch'iian-yao (with the addition of later Ming and Ch'ing pieces), the Ju-yao and the Chiinyao wares. The unclassical wares are also represented, the Ch'ien-yao, the ceramics originating from Yung-ho and Honan and the Tz'u-chou-yao with all kinds of decoration, like painting under and over the glaze, incised or sgraffito motives. The most predominating part in the ceramic collection consists of the Ming and Ch'ing wares whose coloured palette is displayed nearly completely among the exhibited objects. Besides the porcelain decorated in underglaze blue, our show cases are demonstrating all the other common techniques during the Ming: the* group of San-ts'ai, three-colour ware, stonewares with coloured glazes, porcelain painted with enamels over the glaze, the Swatow ware, monochrome species and the so-called Wan-li-wu-ts'ai (polichrome of the Wan Li period).