APPENDIX S 

 KEPORT ON THE FREER GALLERY OF ART 



Sir : I liave the honor to submit the seventeenth annual report on 

 the Freer Gallery of Art for the year ending June 30, 1937 : 



THE COLLECTIONS 



Additions to the collections by purchase are as follows : 



BRONZE 



37.29. Cambodian (Khmer), twelfth ceutuiy. A seated Buddha. Coppery 



bronze with a green patina. 0.240 by 0.132 over all. 

 37.1. Chinese, early Cliou dynasty. A ceremonial vessel of the type yii. White 

 bronze with a rough green patina ; small areas of unaltered metal and 

 earthy incrustation. Decoration in low relief. Inscription in seven 

 characters. 0.418 by 0.565 over all. (Illustrated.) 



37.30. Chinese, Han dynasty. A mirror; so-called TLV type. The surface is 



immaculate, with a glossy black patina slightly clouded with green 

 on the face. Diameter, 0.143. 



37.15. Chinese, late Han or later. A mirror. The surface has a glossy gun- 

 metal black patina with small areas of green aerugo on the back; 

 brilliant gray clouded with black and green on the face. The decora- 

 tion is in high and countersunk relief. Inscription of 56 characters. 

 Diameter, 0.135. (Illustrated.) 



37.14. Chinese, Six Dynasties or earlier, A mirror. The surface has a dark 

 olive green pa tina on the back ; brilliant bluish gray on the face ; 

 earthy adhesions. The principal decoration is of figures and horse- 

 drawn chariots in moderately high relief. Diameter, 0.210. 



MANtJSCKIPT 



37.0. Arabic, ninth-tenth century. A section of the Qtir'an (from Chapter II) 

 written on 32 parchment leaves; later binding of "marbled" paper. 

 Kufic script in dark brown ink; diacritics in red; golden 'ashiras and 

 verse-stops. 0.245 by 0.330, average leaf. 

 37.11. Arabic, ninth-tenth century. A parchment leaf from a Qiir'an with full 

 page designs in gold, marking, respectively, the end of a chapter and 

 the beginning of another. 0.122 by 0.190. 

 37.28. Arabic, A. D, 1283. Yaqut al-Musta'simT, calligrapher. A bound book; 

 later leather binding (broken) : The collected verses of al-Hadira. 

 Thulth and naskhl scripts in black. Dated colophon. 0.277 by 0.205, 

 average leaf. 



37.31. Arabic, fourteenth century (?). A paper leaf from a Qur'dn. Naskhi 



script in gold, nine lines to a page ; diacritics in blue and light red. 

 Illuminated verse-stops and two marginal 'ashiras. 0.340 by 0.217. 



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