SECRETARY'S REPORT 67 



Japanese art: 



Lacquer 13 



Paintings 43 



Pottery 2 



Persian art : 



Manuscripts 3 



Metalwork 22 



Paintings 116 



Pottery 24 



Syro-Egyptian art : 



Metalwork 2 



Pottery 3 



Tibetan art: 



Paintings 2 



Turkish art: 



Paintings 4 



UBRARY 



Accessions of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and study materials 

 came to a total of G55 pieces, of which over one-half were received 

 as gifts from generous friends and institutions. 



Cataloging included 662 analytics, 204 books and pamphlets, and 

 55 titles recataloged and reclassified. A total of 4,047 cards were 

 added to the catalogs and shelf lists. 



Three bibliographies were prepared in response to outside requests 

 and two bibliographies were revised for publication in Freer Gallery 

 Study Outlines. A total of 449 items were bound, labeled, repaired, 

 or mounted. Cards were completed for the index of Chinese artists. 

 The compilation of material for "Abstracts of Technical Studies in 

 Art and Archaeology, 1943-1952," mentioned in the last annual report, 

 was completed. 



PUBLICATIONS 



Two publications of the Gallery were issued during the year : 



Revised edition of Gallery XIII Gallery Book (Chinese Art). 

 Revised bibliography for the Annotated Outlines of Chinese Art. 



Papers by staff members appeared in outside publications as follows : 



Ettinghausen, Richard: "Islamic Art" (translated into Hebrew by publisher), 



Encyclopaedia Hebraica, vol. 5, cols. 25-30, 5 figs. Jerusalem, 1053. 

 . "Islamic Architecture" (translated into Hebrew by publisher), ibid., 



vol. 5, cols. 737-752, 14 figs. 

 . L. A. Mayer, Mamluk Costume, Geneva, 1952, reviewed in The Muslim 



World, vol. 43, pp. 207-208, 1953. 

 . A. C. Weibel, Two Thousand Years of Textiles, New York, 1052, reviewed 



in U. S. Quart. Book Rev., vol. 9, p. 285, 1953. 

 Getten.s, Rutherford J. : "True and False Vermillion on Early Chinese Ceramics," 



Far Eastern Ceramic Bull., Hui-Hsien Number, vol. 6, No. 1, Serial No. 25, 



March 1954. 



