APPENDIX 4 

 REPOET ON THE FREER GALLERY OF ART 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the twenty-second annual report 

 on the Freer Gallery of Art for the year ended June 30, 1942. 



THE COLLECTIONS 



Additions to the collections by purchase are as follows: 



BRASS 



42.8. Persian, dated 1127 (A. D. 1715). Made by 'Abd-al-A'immah. Astro- 



labe. A northern instrument fitted with a ring and handle for 

 suspension, a rete or 'ankahfd, three sexpartite tablets, an alidade 

 equipped with sights, a pin and a bolt. Inscriptions, including signa- 

 ture, in naslilii script. Diameter : 0.129. 

 41.10 Syrian (Damascus?), mid-thirteenth century. Mosul school. A can- 

 teen with a pit in one side and a strainer in the neck. The outer 

 surfaces are decorated with designs of both Christian and Islamic 

 origin executed in silver inlay, and include inscriptions written in 

 Kufic and in 7iaskhi scripts. Height: 0.447; diameter: 0.365; depth: 

 0.213. 



BKONZE 



41.9. Chinese, late Chou dynasty, circa 500-300 B. C. A large bell, with two 



confronted bird forms on the top. Decoration in slight relief, details 

 incised. Gray-green patination. 0.663 x 0.470 over all. 

 42.1. Chinese, early Chou dynasty, twelfth-eleventh century B. C. A cere- 

 monial vessel of the type huo, with a cover in the form of a human 

 face with horns. Patination : outside, gray green with sparse mala- 

 chite incrustations; Inside, gray, gray-green, malachite, cuprite, 

 azurite, and calcareous deposit. 0.182 x 0.210 over all. (Illustrated.) 



42.6. Chinese, early Chou dynasty or earlier. A pointed implement for 

 loosening knots; pierced for suspension. Somewhat translucent pale 

 gray-green nephrite with pale tan mottling. The handle carved in 

 silhouette and countersunk linear relief to represent a long-haired 

 human figure seen in profile. Length: 0.106 over all. 



MANUSCRIPT 



42.3-42.4. Arabic, thirteenth century. Two leaves from a Qur'dn. The text is 

 written in naskhi script, which is drawn in black outline and filled 

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