66 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1954 



54.3. Turkish (Ottoman), ca. 1500. Dish with wide flaring rim; buff-colored, 

 fairly soft clay ; thin, transparent glaze ; decorated with floral designs 

 in underglaze blue. 0.065 x 0.393. 



STONE SCULPTURE 



53.86, Chinese, Six Dynasties. Pair of limestone sculptures in high relief; 



53.87, demon figures as bases to pilasters ; from Hsiang-t'ang-shan caves ; 

 backed up and mounted in concrete. 53.86 : 0.805 x 0.557 ; 53.87 : 0.844 

 X 0.534. 



Total number of accessions to date (including above) 10, 832 



REPAIRS TO THE COLLECTIONS 



Forty-eight Cliinese and Japanese objects were restored, repaired, 

 or remounted by T. Sugiura, who also made three rubbings of inscrip- 

 tions on bronzes and mounted these and 19 other rubbings made by 

 Prof. S. Umehara. He also mounted four fragments of Japanese 

 sutras for the library and repaired or remounted six Near Eastern 

 objects in the collection. John and Richard Finlayson of Boston re- 

 paired and revarnished two American paintings, and Mr. Gettens 

 remended a piece of Persian pottery, 



CHANGES IN EXHIBITIONS 



Changes in exhibitions totaled 409 as follows : 



American art : 



Oil paintings 9 



Arabic art : 



Glass 5 



Manuscripts 2 



Paintings 4 



Armenian art : 



Manuscripts 6 



Chinese art: 



Bronze 61 



Gold 1 



Lacquer 3 



Paintings 23 



Pottery 29 



Sculpture, stone 6 



East Christian art : 



Paintings 5 



Egyptian art: 



Bronze 2 



Crystal S 



Gold 2 



Greek art: 



Manuscripts 7 



Indian art: 



Paintings 7 



