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our te inaccessible. I met Prof.Fu Säu nien on the boat to Ohina in 1948 and told him during the course of our ffequent, plsasant conversations f my plans regarding an article on early pottery for your bulletin. offered to show me all avellable material, if I could come to Nan- king. Due to the precarious situation of surrounded Pseiping I had to go there first, hoping to go to Nanking after my re...
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our te inaccessible. I met Prof.Fu Säu nien on the boat to Ohina in 1948 and told him during the course of our ffequent, plsasant conversations f my plans regarding an article on early pottery for your bulletin. offered to show me all avellable material, if I could come to Nan- king. Due to the precarious situation of surrounded Pseiping I had to go there first, hoping to go to Nanking after my return to Shanghai. wever, by the time of my hectio departure from Pelning most of the Government officesibad already been vacated from Nanking, the fall of shich was expectedsany wesk. Although I prefer to publish only pieces, which I have seen and handled, I should certainly like to use in the oreparation of this paper any publications, which could be of any use to me in the study of the subject. As fer as I am informed (I have seen most of the books in tha possession of Dr.Salmony) there are no Chinese publications with any impobtant Shang or Chou potteries of un usual interast, but if you should know of any worth knowing I would very much appreciate your drawing my attention to them. As some of the late neolithic wares had a profound bsaring on the develonment of Shang ana Chou Potteries I wonder wether you could possibly send me a copy of Volume 15 and perhaps Volume 19 (I think this is the one with the artiele on tha Puchaochal site?). C.T.Loo probably will have some Shang and Chou potteries in his huge stock and I should of course like to inelude thase in my study. Due to his liquidation sale his gallery is closed at present for catalo- ging purposes and he sesms too busy to give any attention to my re- Quest at present. I also am not sure wether he will do so after his re- opening, He has always considered me only as a dealer, carefully hiding hl red treasures from my eyes. While I would have never thought of buying any of his things for my business (his prices usually being too high to make any resale possible or profitable) I should have vary meh liked to acquire occasionally & choices piece to complete my private collection. Since the availability of his material might (or might not, I do not know if and how many worthwhile pleces he may have) be a con- sidsrable contribution towmrd making this survey of Shang and Chou ce- ramies mors comprehensive, perhaps you would not mind sending Loo a few lines explaining to him the situation. Ones his sale starts the things may be scattered into the four winds in no time, without my ha- ving had a chance to ses them and possibly includs some in this study. If end of May should still be acesptable to you I would soon get in touch with you about photos of some of the pieces, which you acquired a few ysars ago, especially the two splendid bowls and the unique four- legged vessel with animel head. Regarding the photos which I take my- self or obtaln from various institutions I should like to ask wether glossy prints not smaller than 9xl2em will be sufficient and wether your printer can snlarge or reduce the size of the various reproduc- tions so as to show the approximate rsel proportions between the ob- jects in natura. I do not usually take elaborate msasuraments of things, but since I have seen and handled all objects, I have the approximate sizes falrly well in my mind. Enelosed I beg to send you eight photographs of an important and un- usual vessel, which I think may be of interest to you. I was fortuna- te in acquiring this Lien only very recently. It eomes from Ch!angsha and seems indeed to bs the most outstanding bronze found there so fer. As there is a good deal of intrigue and jealousy poPevalling in the art businsss here I would appreciate your not mentioning this piece at pra sent to anybody. Of course I should be glad to hear any comments that you have to make on it. The beautifully executed, highly raised deco-
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UP Ar 11 1950. Walter Hochstadter P.0.Box 1184 Grand Central Station New York, NY. Prof.Bernhard Karlgren Östasiatiska Samlingarna Storgatan 41 Stockholm, Sweden. Dear Prof .Karlgren, I should have wr...
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UP Ar 11 1950. Walter Hochstadter P.0.Box 1184 Grand Central Station New York, NY. Prof.Bernhard Karlgren Östasiatiska Samlingarna Storgatan 41 Stockholm, Sweden. Dear Prof .Karlgren, I should have written you long ago regarding the projected article on early pottery. However, since we saw each other the rapid cour- se of events in China and here, first my last trip to China and half years stay there under conditions of extreme turmoil and chaos (Iitook off from Peiping only ten days before the airports were lost and I managed to get my important acquisitions out of the beleagered city only four days before it was comoletely cut off from the outsis de world) and then the complicated matter of my separation from my former partner with the attendent big losses in the dissolution of the firm kept me too occupied and in an upset state of mind, not con- ducive to the writing of a pleasant paper on early pottery. However, I seem to have managed now more or less my main problems.and 1f you should deem it possible still to include my article in the next Vvo- lume of your bulletin I would see to it to deliver it by the end of May. As Shang and Chou pottery are closely related in many respects and since during the past thirteen years I have gatherad an impressi- ve amount of material of both periods I should very much like to ma- ke the paper a combined treatise on "Grey Pottery of Shang and Chou", the first part dealing with Shang pottery from Anyang, the second part with Chou pottery from Esienyang, Chints'un, Hsinhsiang and so- me sites in Central China. The number of illustrations would probably range from sixty to eighty and if four to six of them would be repro- ducsd on each plate (depending on the size of the object) the number of plates needed would be about fifteen to twenty. The text would not be very long, probably somewhere from ten to fifteen typewritten pa- ges. I am rather apt to condense my writings to the basic essentials than go to a lot of bloated elaborations. I do not see much sense or need for tiresome (to the reader) descriptions of details that can obviously and readily bs seen on the reproduetions. Of course in some cases the reader's special attention must ba drawn to certain facts or details. I also should like to mention here agaln that I am no ex- pert on the technique of pottsry making, which was the same during the Shang and Bhou periods. While basic techniques and constitution of body material (the latter variss considerably among some of the Chou sites) would certainly be dealt with in the discussion of each site, the main emphasis wouldPtn form and decoration, which are the ehlef distinguishing characteristics of the various types and thedrdar measure for esthetic qualities. To complete the collscting of my ma- terial I em planning this month to ses agaln the Field Museum in Chi- cago and tohake a special trip to Toronto to go through their exten- sive material of Chou pottery. I should like to mal 1s paper just as comprehensive as possible short of ineluding the important collec- tions of the Academia Sinica, which at present unfortunately are qui-
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ow9 ration of all possible creatures, very much alive, facins each other or running in opposite directions is quite fascinating. There is ob- viously some relationship between this decor and the one o...
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ow9 ration of all possible creatures, very much alive, facins each other or running in opposite directions is quite fascinating. There is ob- viously some relationship between this decor and the one on the slen- der eylindrival box with cover published with the Hellström bronzes. Rather unususl are the wlld man staring out of the mountain (IV, IVa, IVb), the two ape men (IV, IVb) and the elephant (IV, IVb), which as fer as I am informed seems to be the only one to occur on a Han bron- ze. I hope that Mrs.Karlgren and yourself are in the best of health. with kind regards and best wishes I am Sincerely yours, Taste SokAakbrr.
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