APPENDIX 4 



REPORT ON THE FREER GALLERY OF ART 



Sin : I have the honor to submit the twenty-fifth annual report on 

 the Freer Gallery of Art for the year ended June 30, 1945 : 



THE COLLECTIONS 



Additions to the collections by purchase are as follows : 



BOOKBINDING 



45.15. Egypto-Arabic, 14th century. Two covers with a flap. Brown leather with 

 blind and gold tooling, on pasteboard. 0.371 x 0.275 (single cover). 



BRONZE 



44.57. Chinese, Chou dynasty, 4th-3d century B. C. Hook, with hinged handle. 

 Decoration in relief and incised to receive inlay, traces of which remain. 

 Olive-green patina. 0.223 x 0.098 over all. 



45.30. Chinese, Sui dynasty, dated in correspondence with A. D. 609. Buddhist 



ex-voto : The Buddhas Gautama and Prabiitaratna. Surface gilded ; 

 areas of green patina and earthy incrustations. Dedicatory inscription, 

 dated. 0.218 x 0.141 x 0.055. 



45.31. Chinese, period of the Six Dynasties. Buddhist statuette : Bhaisajyagura 



( Yao-shih-fo) . Surface gilded ; green and reddish patina on worn areas. 

 0.127 (height). 



CALLIGRAPHY 



45.10. Arabic (Egypt?) 8th century. Parchment leaf from a Qur'dn. Text in 

 black kufl script set against a washed-out blue background. An illumi- 

 nated band between two suras on the reverse. 0.283 x 0.398. 



45.17. East Persia, 10th century. Parchment leaf from a Qur'un. Text in black 



naskhi script, with red vowel-marks. 0.204 x 0.302. 



45.18. Arabic, 14th century. Fragmentary paper page from a Qur'dn, with a 



black thulth, text, and the word Allah in gold. 0.178 x 0.361. 

 45.19- Arabic 8th-9th century. Two parchment leaves from a Qur'dn. Text 

 45.20. in black kufl script with red vowel-marks ; a sura heading in gold. 



45.19, 0.194 x 0.257 ; 45.20, 0.194 x 0.258. 



CERAMICS 



44.47. Chinese, Sung dynasty. Ying-ch'ing ware. Bowl with slightly everted 



lip and slightly concave foot. Body of white porcelain, covered with 



a pale, transparent blue glaze filled with minute bubbles. Decoration 



inside incised in the body ; principally comb marks. 0.070 x 0.175. 



45.1. Chinese, Ming dynasty. Potiche with short, straight neck sloping slightly 



inward. Body of hard, white clay, glazed in white, deep blue, turquoise 



blue, aubergine and brownish yellow in local areas outlined with slip 



edges in relief. 0.305 x 0.345. 



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