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59.10 Japanese, Hdo period, Nabeshima. Shallow dish with high, thin foot ring; 
clay: fine white porcelain; glaze: transparent; decoration: in under- 
glaze blue outside and in, the latter combined with overglaze enamels. 
0.037 x 0.150. 
REPAIRS TO THE COLLECTIONS 
Twenty-nine Chinese, Japanese, and Persian objects were restored, 
repaired, or remounted by T. Sugiura. In addition, he repaired 18 
books for the library. 
CHANGES IN EXHIBITIONS 
Changes in exhibitions amounted to 445 as follows: 
American art: Paintings ese Se 60 
Drawings) teers ase 29 Stone sculpture_____- 10 
items site eee ere 20 Japanese art: Paintings__ 4 
Mighographsy ssa a 18 Korean art: 
Chinese art: IBTONZG:Sss2422--5=5— 6 
BT ONZC eee 34 Jatlen2 ae eee ft 
Bvory a2 cr ie ses 8 Metalwork ~~ .-.~-__- 6 
Lacquers ese 4 Pottery; fis. set cab 65 
Christian art: Near Hastern art: 
Orystalye see ee al Bookbindings —-----_- 10 
Glass) se ee es 3 Manuseripisy==—=————- 28 
Goldner eee ee. 9 Metalwork —---_----_ 30 
Paintings! 22920 = bees 8 Paintings) 2yi2ee Ass 44 
Stone sculpture______ 1 Pottery vtes4..-2 18 
Indian art: Stone sculpture___--~- PA 
IBTONZC) 222 eee ee 2 Wood sculpture____-- 2 
Manuseripts: 22--——-—— iy Tibetan art: Paintings___~ 4 
LIBRARY 
Among the 1,005 acquisitions for the library of the Freer Gallery, 
there were 533 welcome gifts from individuals and exchanges from 
other institutions. Outstanding in the purchases were: Dai kan wa 
jiten (Great Chinese-Japanese dictionary), 10 of the 13 volumes have 
been received; Sekai toji zenshu (Catalogue of the world’s ceramics) 
in 16 volumes, Tokyo, Kawade Shobo, 1955-58; Sekai kokogaku 
taiket (Archaeology of the world), to be complete in 16 volumes, 
Tokyo, Heibonsha, 1958-; Pearson, /ndea I[slamicus, 1906-1955, 
Cambridge, Heffer & Sons, 1958; Kern Institute, Annual bibliography 
of Indian archaeology, vol. 16 (1948-1953), Leiden, Brill, 1958; 
Gulik, R. H. van, Chinese pictorial art as viewed by the connoisseur, 
Roma, 1958; Nishimura Tei, Vamban art, Christian art in Japan, 
1549-1639, Tokyo, 1959. 
The library receives publications from mainland China and ex- 
changes publications with the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. 
