APPENDIX 3 

 REPORT ON THE FREER GALLERY OF ART 



Sik: I have the honor to submit the tenth annual report on the 

 Freer Gallery of Art for the year ending June 30, 1930 : 



THE COLLECTIONS 



Additions to the collections by purchase are as follows : 



BOOKBINDING 



30.46. Egyptian, fourteenth century. Dark brown leatb.er on pasteboard, lined 



witli cliestnut brown leatlier. Decoration in blind and gold tooling. 



30.47. Egyptian, fourteenth century. Dark brown leather on pasteboard, lined 



with ligliter brown leather. Decoration in blind and gold tooling. 



30.26. Chinese, fifth century B. C. A ceremonial wine jar of the type yii, with 



a bail handle. 



30.37. Chinese, period of the Sui dynasty (A. D. 5S9-61S). A mirror, with the 



back decorated with six panels containing galloping animals in relief. 

 The addition of red and green color to the central medallion is unusual. 



30.38. Chinese, eighth to ninth century. T'ang period. A mirror with a scal- 



loped edge. The back is decorated with floral designs in relief. 



30.45. Chinese, seventh to tenth century. T'ang period. A mirror with a fes- 

 tooned rim. The back is covered by a sheet of gold, decorated with 

 an embossed scroll design containing flowers and birds. 



30.54. Chinese, eleventh century, B. C. Early Chou period. A ceremonial ves- 

 sel, of the type fang i. White bronze patinated with azurite, malachite, 

 and cuprite. In.scriptions inside of the cover and the body of the 

 vessel. 



JADB 



Chinese, Han period (206 B. C.-A. D. 220). A group of objects from a single 

 burial, as follows : 



30.27. A necklace made of four strands of gold wire, braided, to which are 



attached four carved pendants and six cylindrical beads of white jade. 

 30.28-30.29. Two combs of white jade, with a formal carved ornament at the 

 top. 



30.30. A hair ornament (?) of carved white jade, somewhat altered by burial. 



30.31. A peach-shaped cup on a low foot, of greenish-white jade, with cream- 



colored areas of alleratiun. A delicate engraved pattern is on the 

 outside of the cup. 

 30.43. A figure of a dancer, a detached ornament, carved in white jade. 



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