On May 7, ECNU launched the “Pottery Drum Casting: Exhibition of Stamped Hard Potteries Donated by Huang Zhirong”. A collection of 167 stamped hard potteries traveled through time and space to meet with ECNUers at the university’s museum. They were donated by Huang Zhirong, a cultural relics collector in Liyang City of Jiangsu Province.
On display were the best pieces in this collection. Starting with “The Birth of Pottery”, the exhibition introduced the evolution from early pottery to stamped hard pottery, focusing on displaying the shape, use, decorative features, and production processes of stamped hard pottery and the relationship between stamped hard pottery and bronze ware and glazed porcelain of the same period.
The stamped hard pottery displayed in the exhibition, including the pots, jars and urns typical of the pre-Qin period and the relatively rare square vessels and statues, not only present the pottery culture of the Yangtze River Delta, but also reveal the profound cultural connotation of Jiangnan culture (the regions south of the Yangtze River).
Huang Zhirong has been dedicated to collecting stamped hard pottery for decades. He donated this collection to ECNU, hoping that with the university’s research advantages, the historical and academic values of stamped hard pottery can be further explored.
He also wishes that his effort may promote the protection and research of cultural relics in general. “We should let cultural relics, history and culture speak for themselves,” said Huang.
Exhibition time (except holidays)：
May 8 - June 7
9:00-11:00 13:00-16:00
Venue：
Exhibition hall of ECNU Museum
(2nd floor, Shuangchuang Building,
North Zhongshan Road Campus, near the gate of Jinshajiang Road)
Since its founding in 1952, the ECNU Museum is known for its vast amount of collected materials and artifacts, which are displayed in six sub-museums featuring history, ancient coins, biology, geography, folk arts and education images, respectively.
ECNU Ancient Coins Museum
ECNU Biological History Museum
ECNU Education Images Museum
The highlights of the ECNU Museum are in the variation and dynamics of each exhibit that display its own unique attributes and style.
Don’t forget to pay a visit to the ECNU museum and check out those precious exhibits！
Source：ECNU Museum
Author：Xu Xincheng
Copy editor: Philip Nash
Editor: Yuan Yiwei
