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Chinese art : 



Bronze 2 



Gold 1 



Kossu 1 



Lacquer 2 



Paintings 17 



Pottery and porcelain 30 



Wood sculpture 2 



Japanese art: 



Bronze sculpture 1 



Paintings 42 



Pottery 10 



Sassanian art: 



Silver 2 



Venito-Islamic art: 



Brass 1 



LIBRARY 



Accessions of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and study materials 

 totaled 835 pieces, making a total of 31,905 books and pamphlets, of 

 which 18,303 are in Chinese, 6,682 in Japanese, and others in Arabic, 

 Armenian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Turkish, as well as in the 

 Western languages. The above total does not include study material. 

 One of the year's outstanding gifts to the library was the Horyuji 

 Kondo hekiga shu reproductions from the Tokyo National Museum. 



In addition to the work of expanding the card catalog and revision 

 of the oriental books catalog, 976 publications and scrolls were cata- 

 loged, 229 parts of serial publications were entered, 3,522 cards were 

 added to the catalogs and shelf lists. A total of 509 items were bound, 

 labeled, repaired, or mounted. 



Bibliographic references of the American paintings owned by the 

 Gallery were coordinated with the catalog cards and the Gallery folder 

 sheets. Work on indexing of both the English and Japanese editions 

 of the Japanese periodical Kohha continued, and the project is more 

 than half complete. The compilation of abstracted material in the 

 jfield of art and archeology in cooperation with the associate in tech- 

 nical research has consumed a great deal of time. This publication is 

 intended to be the principal guide to all recent literature on technical 

 abstracts of art and archeology, beginning with published sources for 

 1943, through December 1952. It is intended that the completed 

 abstracts will be published in the near future as one of the series of 

 Occasional Papers of the Freer Gallery of Art. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Three publications of the Gallery were issued during the year : 



Pope, John Alexander : Fourteenth-century blue-and-white. A group of Chinese 

 porcelains in the Topkapu Sarayi Miizesi, Istanbul, 1952. Occasional Papers, 

 VOL 2, No. 1. (Smithsonian Publ. 4089.) 



