Bulletin Summer 1975

donation of ten pieces of porcelain and lacquer from the B.Y. L am Foundation in January 1975 and another collection of four porcelain pieces from the Wah Kwo ng Collection in June 1975. Other valuable items of painting, calligraphy, porcelain, and antiquities from various private collectors are so numerous that they cannot be recorded and acknowledged individually here. In sum, the Art Gallery can only express its profound gratitude to all its friends for their kind help in building up a museum that can mount exhibitions of its own acquisitions and support its instructional programme. Bronze seals of the Han period Presented by Lee family Another important contribution to the Art Gallery is the donation of art books which give material assistance to the teaching programme. A whole set of 1,798 volumes of books on Chinese and Oriental Art donated by Mr. Cheng Chi and 447 volumes on Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, by Mr. Lin Po-shou were received in 1972. Mrs. Mae Fong Soong, on the other hand, has continuously donated books on Western Art. With these donations, the art books at the University Library System, and the colour slides collected over the years at the Photographic Archive of the Art Gallery, an adequate art library can be built to support the graduate programme of the Fine Arts Department now already at the planning stage. Carved lacquer plate with dragon design, Ming, Chia-ching Presented by the B. Y. Lam Foundation Ching'tu Tsao-hsiang, one of the thousand rubbingsfrom Lungmen caves, Northern Wei, Purchased by Art Gallery Acquisition Fund 17