Jakabffy Imre szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 13. (Budapest, 1971)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Report on the Activities of the Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1969 and 1970

Jt was also for the anniversary thai the manuscript of the Handbook of the Museum got completed. It provides concise information about each collection in the museum with details about the most outstanding works or groups of works. This consists of 127 pages, 14 oui of which are devoted to a summary in English. It has 17.'! illustrations as well. The small book edited by Tibor Horváth and written by Eva Cseh, László Keronczy, \ era Horváth, György Kovács and Péter Polonyi was published in 1970. dur international scientific conference was held from 10th to I Dili of .lune. A review of this along with the full or abridged texts of the lectures and papers had already appeared in the previous, 12th volume of our Yearbook, so there is no need to give a detailed account of it here. It has also been 50 years that Ferenc Hopp died on the 9th. September, at the age of 80. His collection and house afforded the possibility and basis to found the museum. To pay homage and tribute to his great personality a visit to his tomb in Kerepesi Cemetery was arranged. New acquisitions Purchase Donation Bequest Cession Total Chinese collection 10 72 82 Japanese collection 18 45 63 Indian collection 9 13 I S 31 Near-Eastern collection 21 \ - 19 44_ Total: 58 17 I 144 220 (Note: the smaller collections of Nepal, Ceylon, Soulh-East Asia, Pakistan, and Indonesia are attached to dial of India: ihe Mcar-Kaslern collection, loo. is completed by smaller ones, such as Jenő Zichy's Caucasian and Siberian archeological collection as well as a Korean and a Mongolian collections.) The 220 pieces are introduced in 198 items into the inventory. The most important purchases are the following: China, a cloisonné enamelled vase from the first half of the 16th century (fig. 5), Tibet, painted temple banners; Japan, cuts from 18th century block-printed books, a small wooden figure of Zenzai doji (fig. 12): Vietnam, a laquered painting by N. Gam ..The North and the South" (fig. 13); Mongolia gilt bronze statuettes from the 18—19th centuries. D o n a I i 0 n s Yo Dorjsurcn, director of ihe Central Museum in Ulan-Bator presented a painting "In the Storm" by Sengetsokyo (fig. 14) to the museum on ihe occasion of its 50th anniversary. Edmund de Inger (London), a white enamelled Seljuk-Iranian cup (fig. I) from the 12th century and an Egyptian Coptic ivory carving with a female torso, 0th century, donated similarly on the occasion of the anniversary. Dr. Tibor Bodrogi: I I woodcuts by contemporary Indonesian artists. Rudolf Brandt: '< )ni mani padme hum" Tibetinn inscription carved in stone. Péter Poioniji: two modern small vases from Vietnam and Mongolia.