58 ANNUAJ^ REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1925 



CHINESE I'AINTINQ 



24.3. Landscape : Breaking waves and autumn wind.^. A scroll. By Tai Chin. 



Ming, middle fifteenth century. 



NEAB EASTERN POTTERY 



25.4. Bowl with painted decoration. Persian Rhage^. Twelfth-thirteenth 



century. 



25.5. Bowl with painted decoration. Persian, Rhages. Twelfth-thirteenth 



century. 



25.6. Bowl with decoration in gold luster. Persian. Eighth century. 



25.7. A small dish with painted decoration under glaze. Arab. Tenth- 



eleventh century. 

 25.8 Bowl with engraved decoration, under glaze. Persian. Ninth century. 



25.9. Bowl with decoration engraved and painted under glaze. Persian. Ninth 



century. 



25.10. Bowl with decoration engraved and painted under glaze. Persian. 



Ninth «entury. 



25.11. Bowl with decoration engraved and painted under glaze. Persian. 



Ninth century. 



25.12. Bowl with decoration painted in black over glaze. Persian. Ninth 



century. 



Additions to the library by gift and purchase comprise 90 books 

 and periodicals and 127 pamphlets. A list of these accompanies this 

 report as Appendix A (not printed). Forty-six volumes have been 

 rebound. 



The work of making identification photographs for use in the 

 card catalogue continues, and in addition, several hundred i)hoto- 

 graphs and a number of lantei-n slides have been made to order and 

 delivered to purchasers. Of the publications issued by the gallery, 

 there have been sold during the year, 538 copies of gallery books, 

 422 copies of the Synopsis of History, and G82 copies Of the descrip- 

 tive pamphlet. 



During the past year there has been an increasing demand upon 

 the gallery for translations of Chinese, Japanese, and Tibetan in- 

 scriptions, and for information concerning various objects. One 

 hundred and five such objects, consisting, for the most part, of 

 Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Korean paintings, Japanese prints,, 

 and articles of pottery and jade, have been submitted for exam- 

 ination. 



The usual work in repairing and making exhibition cases, picture 

 frames, stretchers, and other equipment has been done in the gallery 

 shop, and the necessary minor repairs to tlie building, as well as 

 certain improvements such as the construction of a photographic 

 dark room in the attic, were made by the employees of the shop. 



The Freer Gallery begs to acknowledge its indebtedness to the 

 Department of Agriculture for its aid in exterminating the boxwood 

 pest, " the leaf miner," and to thank the Fish Commission for its 

 gift of goldfish for the fountain basin. 



