The additions made to the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum during the past year, and just recently put on exhibition, are especially significant, the directors have announced. Hitherto unobtainable objects have been acquired through the work of Harvard excavators or as gifts from friends.

The Buddhist sculpture excavated in 1924 in Mongolia is placed on public exhibition for the first time, and is comprised of some 15 polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition.

A small bronze figure representing a Buddhist divinity is the gift of Dr. D. W. Ross '75. Though the figure had its origin in Korea in the sixth century, it is of the style of the Chinese Six Dynasties. No similar example is available for study outside the museums in Korea and the temple in Kyoto.

A large wooden figure purchased in Pekin, and now on exhibition, represents the seventeenth-century type of religious sculpture which has been largely ignored in favor of earlier and more archaic sculpture.

Japanese Paintings Exhibited

For years it has been nearly impossible to secure important Japanese paintings because they are prized by native collectors and not allowed to come to the West. The pair of fourteenth-century shrine doors painted with two Buddhist figures in two colors has therefore peculiar interest to the Museum. The collection of early Chinese Buddhist drawings has also been increased to a full dozen through the gift of Sir Percival David of London, who has recently added three more. Sir Percival has also presented the Museum with a pottery bowl, one of a unique pair, the other of which remains in the donor's collection in England.

In addition to the Oriental Exhibitions, the directors are calling attention to the collection of prints given by Philip Hofer '21, which supplements his gift of books to the Library. The prints cover a period of time from the fifteenth century to the present day and as great a range of subjects as illustrations for the Bible to dancing figures by Toulouse-Lautrec. Among them are woodcut book-illustrations, numbering more than 500. In many cases the whole page of the book is preserved, showing the cut in its setting on the page of text, an aid to the student of early printing. Included are examples from the chief centers of book-illustration in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; many were colored by hand in imitation of miniatures in manuscripts for which printed books were cheaper substitutes.

Ten volumes of "La Caricature" contain many lithographs by Daumier, including some of his most famous, as "Mr. Prune" and "Mr. Guiz", as well as the work by his contemporaries. There is also a useful addition in a complete set of Turner's "Liber Studiorum".