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"Gaoshan Mountain Tour - Exhibition of Cultural Relics Donated by Shanghai Museum" (September 27 -December 26) is on display at the Shanghai Museum these days. Behind each exhibit is a donation story that is either widely praised or unknown. Among the donors are a large number of collectors represented by Hu Huichun, Pan Dayu, Tan Jing, Shen Tongju, Gu Lijiang, Le Duzhou, Sun Yufeng, Ding Xierou, etc., as well as organizers and leaders of early cultural undertakings, including Zheng Zhenduo, Xu Senyu, Wang Yiping, Wu Zhongchao, Xie Zhiliu, Chen Zhi, etc. The Paper specially invited Zhang Dong, deputy director of the Preservation Department of the Shanghai Museum and a research librarian, to interpret the donation story behind the exhibits, and the "Surging News Ancient Art" was published in two parts: (top) and (bottom).
Suzhou GuoyunLou is famous for its collection of precious calligraphy and paintings, and enjoys the reputation of "the first in Jiangnan". Gu Wenbin (1811-1889), the first generation of the owner of the Guanyun Building, the character WeiRu, the trumpet Zishan, the Zishan, the late Gun'an, the former official Langzhong, Wuchang Yanfa Dao, Zhejiang Ningshao Daotai and so on. The Gu family has been in business for generations, but Gu Wenbin's father, Gu Chunjiang, loves calligraphy and painting, and in addition to doing business, he collects works by famous artists and cultivates his son to take the road of reading and becoming a master. Daoguang twenty-one years (1841), and Gu Wenbin, who was in the year of establishment, was a zhongjinshi. Because of his ear and eyes, Gu Wenbin has been associated with calligraphy and painting since childhood, gong calligraphy, poetry, especially the name of the word, the Gu family from the industrial and commercial family gorgeous transformation into a cultural family.
Over the cloud building
The bronze QiHouZai and four paintings and calligraphy exhibited in the exhibition at Shangbo this time- Yuanhua Zuli's "Ten Sons of Xuanmen", Wei Yiwen's "Xingshu Wen Xiang Ti Scroll", Qing Wang Yi's "Yellow Crane Transmission Lantern Scroll", "Du Qiong, Shen Zhou, Liu Yu Shanshui Combined Volume" were donated by Shen Tongyu, wife of Gu Zeyang, the fourth generation owner of Guoyunlou, together with Gu Du, Gu Fo, Gu Duzhang, Gu Duxuan, and Gu Duqiu in 1951 and 1956. Shen Tongyu (1896-1978), wife of Gu Zeyang (1897-1951, Zi Gongxiong), presided over the donation of the cultural relics of the "GuoyunLou" to the public collection. Suzhou "Over the Cloud Building" Gu clan is a famous collection family in modern times, from Gu Wenbin to Gu Gongxiong, Fan Li IV. In 1951, adhering to the legacy of Mr. Gu Gongxiong, Ms. Shen Tongyu and her children Gu Duxuan, Gu Duxuan, Gu Duluo, Gu Fo, Gu Duzhang, and Gu Duqiu donated a total of 223 pieces of QiHouzao, Song Yuan, Ming and Qing calligraphy paintings and other cultural relics to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee; in 1959, she donated 169 Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing calligraphy paintings, inscriptions and manuscripts, including Wei Zhiweng's "Xingshu Wen Xiang Ti" volume, to the Shanghai Museum; in 1964, she donated two Zhou Dynasty Yi artifacts, including father Gengzu Xinding, and various ancient papers to the Shanghai Museum. In 1972, Ms. Shen Tongyu collected 390 cultural relics such as Ming and Qing Dynasty seals and plutonium, which were collected in the Shanghai Museum.
The turn is a water injector and is often used in conjunction with a dish. The shape and ornamentation of QiHouzai is a popular style in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is the largest piece of the Western Zhou bronze zao found so far, reflecting the noble status of the owner. The inscription on the bottom of the abdomen is cast in four lines and twenty-two characters, and the inscription is to the effect that Qi Hou made this treasure for the eldest daughter of his wife Yu Jun, and prayed for his descendants to use it forever. The princely states of the Zhou Dynasty, seeking the guarantee of political status and hierarchy, usually adopted the method of marriage to maintain it.
Shen Tongyu, Gu Liu, Gu Fo, Gu Duzhang, Gu Duxuan, and Gu Duqiu donated Qi Houzai in 1951.
The "Xingshu Wen Xiang Ti Scroll" and "Xuanmen Ten Zi Tu" are all first-class items in the collection, of which the "Xuanmen Ten Zi Tu" is painted close to Li Gonglin, with rounded and elegant lines to outline the characters, light and elegant color, there is a sense of quiet and scattered, the characters in the painting are full of vivid and vivid, the details are depicted in detail, Lao Tzu sits on the mountain stone, far away from the dust, as if preaching the scriptures, the disciples stand and meditate, if they have some understanding, it is very evocative.
Yuanhua Zuli's "Ten Sons of Xuanmen" (partial) was donated by Shen Tongyu, Gu Liu, Gu Fo, Gu Duzhang, Gu Duxuan, and Gu Duqiu in 1959.
Yuanhua Zuli's "Ten Sons of Xuanmen" (partial) was donated by Shen Tongju, Gu Liu, Gu Fo, Gu Duzhang, Gu Duxuan, and Gu Duqiu in 1959.
Wei Yiweng's "Xingshu Wen Xiang Ti Scroll" was donated by Shen Tongyu, Gu Liu, Gu Fo, Gu Duzhang, Gu Duxuan, and Gu Duqiu in 1959.
Guoyunlou Old Tibetan Qing Wang Yi "Yellow Crane Transmission Lamp Picture Scroll" (partial)
Du Qiong, Shen Zhou, Liu Yu Shan Shui Volume (Partial)
The white glaze of the Jun kiln donated by Hu Huichun and Wang Huayun in this exhibition is a first-class product of the Collection of the Shanghai Museum.
Hu Huichun (1910-1993)
Hu Huichun (1910-1993), known as Renmu, ZiHuichun, Zhai ming Xie Zhenlu, Tang No. 2 De Lou, was the manager of Zhongnan Bank, a member of the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee, founded the "Minqiu Jingshe" in Hong Kong, and is a well-known collector of cultural relics. He has assisted in promoting the return of the "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Boyuan Thesis".
Hu Huichun and Wang Huayun donated the Jun kiln moon white glaze zun
In 1950, Hu Huichun donated 286 pieces of cultural relics such as Shang Zhou bronzes and porcelain from the Past dynasties collected by Xie Zhenyi to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee, which was later collected by the Shanghai Museum; in 1989, Hu Huichun and Wang Huayun donated 82 cultural relics such as junyao Yuebai glaze zun and Ming and Qing paintings to the Shanghai Museum; in 2021, four pieces of porcelain from the old collection of temporarily acquired building porcelain, including apple green glaze printing boxes in Jingdezhen, a Qing Dynasty, were donated to the Shanghai Museum by the descendants of Hu and Wang.
According to Zhang Dong, the types of porcelain donated by Mr. Hu Huichun in his early years were mainly concentrated in monochrome glazed porcelain, he was a bank manager, his father was also from the banking industry, and there were many collections in the family, and his generation collection was more perfect. Before 1949, Hu Huichun was an insider in the Shanghai collection circle, and when he encountered monochrome glazed porcelain in the antique circle, the first thing he thought of was to send it to shanghai, and Hu Huichun often bought a large number of things regardless of the price, so his porcelain collection system was very complete.
Porcelain in Hu Huichun's living room
In 1945, Hu Huichun was hired as a special committee member of the Ceramics Committee of the Forbidden City in Beijing, when he was only 35 years old. In 1950, he was also appointed as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee. When he was a member of the committee, he donated 268 pieces of various cultural relics such as Ming and Qing Dynasty official kiln porcelain to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee. This large amount of precious porcelain played a role in laying the foundation for the preparation of the Shanghai Museum, which had a very weak cultural relics foundation at that time.
Subsequently, the Hu family moved to Hong Kong to help promote the return of the "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Boyuan Thesis". In 1960, Hu Huichun founded minqiu jingsha and served as its chairman for eight terms. Min Qiu Jing She has maintained a high level of collection to this day, focusing on high-taste collectors and connoisseurs in Hong Kong.
"In order to support the construction of new China and the dream of establishing an international museum in Shanghai, a group of members of the Shanghai Cultural Management Committee in the early liberation period like Mr. Hu Huichun donated all or most of their collections, and this selfless spirit deserves to be remembered forever." In order to thank Mr. Hu Huichun, the owner of the temporary building, the Shanghai Museum opened a special museum for the ceramics exhibition of the temporary building for his collection. The person in charge of Shangbo said.
In 2021, Mr. Hu Huichun's daughter and son-in-law donated a pair of apple green glaze printing boxes to the Shanghai Museum, and the pair of porcelain was also temporarily in the old collection of the building, it is said that Mr. Hu Huichun especially liked the pair of apple green glaze printing boxes and has been placing them on the desk.
Hu Huichun and Fan Jirong
Mr. Hu Huichun's son-in-law is Mr. Fan Jirong, a Chinese-American collector, who often visits Shangbo should be no stranger to him, he is a big collector of bronzes, and he has also donated a lot of bronze relics to the Shanghai Museum, and the cultural relics he donated will be presented in the second phase of the exhibition of donated cultural relics held after the Shanghai Museum. Mr. Hu Huichun's descendants believe that this pair of apple green glaze printing boxes is still the best home for the reunion of Tibetan Shangbo and Temporary Delou porcelain, which was donated to Shangbo this year, and this is also the first exhibition. The good deeds of Weng and his son-in-law in relaying the donation of cultural relics are also beautiful.
Temporarily donated Jingdezhen kiln apple green glaze printing box (a pair)
This pair of apple green glaze printing boxes is a very rare work, the rarity is that it was intended to be fired cowpea red glaze, but the color after calcination by kiln fire has undergone unexpected changes, only the top of the lid, the cover along the edge and the lower part of the vessel near the foot can be seen cowpea red glaze color, the rest of the large area is apple green. That is to say, apple green glaze is a kiln variation of cowpea red glaze, its color is fresh and pleasant, and it is more interesting than ordinary cowpea red utensils, which is particularly cute. In the late Qing Dynasty, this apple green cowpea red artifact was extremely valuable and extremely precious. The bottom of the vessel is based on the blue and white book "Great Qing Kangxi Year System" three-line six-character calligraphy, which is a typical Kangxi official kiln ware. After Mr. Pan Dayu, the famous Suzhou gate Pan Shien and Pan Zuyin, she has donated the cultural relics collected by the Pan family to the Shanghai Museum three times, and the donated cultural relics include more than 100 cultural relics such as the national heavy weapon Da Lu Ding, Da Ke Ding, calligraphy and painting. Da Lu Ding and Da Ke Ding have just been exhibited together in the recently concluded "Ding Sheng Qian Qiu" exhibition in Shangbo, and are currently being exhibited at the National Museum of China. Pan Da's donated tao, Lu Zhi's "Colored Flowers and Butterflies Seed Rolls", Ma Shouzhen's "Colored Flower Scrolls" and other collections have rarely been exhibited, and these works are presented in this donation exhibition.
Pan Da Yu donated Ma Shouzhen's "Colored Flower Roll"
Pan Da Yu donated Lu Zhi's "Colored Flower Butterfly Grass Seed Roll"
It is worth mentioning that the exhibition team of Shangbo will exhibit the donated cultural relics of Pan Dayu with the pottery and ox blade donated by Pan Jingzheng, the stone medallion of Zhao Zhiqian "Pan Zuyin" donated by Ding Xierou, and the gilded bronze statue of Guanyin. Inding Xierou is the sister of Pan Dayu, and the two sisters of Pan Dayu are the daughters-in-law of the Pan family in Suzhou. Ding Xierou's husband Pan Boshan and Pan Jingzheng are brothers. It can be said that the cultural relics donated by Pan Dayu, Ding Xierou and Pan Jingzheng all belong to the old collection of the Pan family's ancestors, and now they are gathered in the Exhibition Hall of Shangbo.
Pan Jingzheng donated Tao Xi
Pan Jingzheng donated engraved ox blades
Ding Xierou donated Zhao Zhiqian "Pan Zuyin" stone medal
The "Miscellaneous Scrolls" such as Liu Ding, Ge Yao, "Twin Scripture Scrolls", Xiang Shengmo's "Looking at Mei Tu Scrolls" and Wen Zhengming exhibited in the exhibition were all donated by collector Sun Yufeng.
Sun Yufeng's 1965 donation of the Northern Song Dynasty "Twin Sutra Scrolls"
Before 1949, Sun Yufeng founded "Want Kang", "Fukang" and "Runkang" to conduct securities and gauze trading, and later served as the chairman and general manager of Zhabei Hydropower Company and the chairman of Yukang Real Estate Company. He went to France twice in the 1930s to participate in the preview of the international exhibition of Chinese art in London, and the ancient artworks of the Palace Museum impressed Sun Yufeng and influenced his lifelong collection of cultural relics. He spends almost all his money on collecting cultural relics and has a high ability to appreciate cultural relics.
Sun Yufeng donated Wen Zhengming and other miscellaneous paintings in 1965
Sun Yufeng's 1965 donation of Xiang Shengmu's "Looking at the Plum Scroll"
In 1961, 1965 and 1974, Sun Yufeng donated 574 pieces of precious cultural relics to the Shanghai Museum. In 1981, Sun Yufeng's wife Wang Defeng and her children Sun Hengti, Sun Hengke, Sun Hengkai, Sun Hengxin, Sun Henghui, Sun Hengying, Sun Hengying and Sun Hengyi once again donated 82 pieces of calligraphy and painting to the Shanghai Museum.
Statue of Sun Yufeng 50 years old
Mr. Zheng Zheng, a well-known scholar and newspaperman, once recorded in "Smoke and Clouds Pass through the Eyes and Realize the Tao through Life--Sun Yufeng's Collecting Career":
In the archives of the Shanghai Museum, there is a letter from a donor of cultural relics who has turned yellow and brittle, and whose handwriting has faded somewhat: "In order to commemorate the success of the explosion of the first atomic bomb in China, I specially put 40 ancient calligraphy and paintings in my collection (including the Five Old Pictures of Suiyang of the Song Dynasty, the Album of the Relics of the Ancient Sages painted by the Song Dynasty and the Album of Dong Xuanzai, Chen Laolian, Shi Tao, Wang Yanke, Wang Shigu, Wu Yushan, Yun Nantian and others, the Song People's Search for Mountains, the Wenji Guihan Map, the Song People's Scriptures, the Zhang Yutai Xiange Records and Xu Wenchang, Qiu Shizhou, Xie Fanxian, Ding Yunpeng and other picture scrolls. Dunhuang Tang figure paintings and paintings by Wen Zhengming, Wen Wufeng, Lu Baoshan, Tang Bohu, Zhou Dongcun, Guoting Zhang, Xiang Yi'an, Chen Laolian and others) were donated to your museum to commemorate the success of China's nuclear test. For fear of being indistinguishable from authenticity, it is intended to send the above items to your museum for identification, and if there are fakes, please return them; if they are genuine, all of them will be donated to your museum, and the donated paintings and catalogs will be re-sent after identification. And here we go. "The donor's fist and humility and prudence touched everyone's heart, he is Sun Yufeng.
Song Jiang Xuan et al. "Suiyang Five Old Pictures Inscription Book"
Judging from the full records of this donation register, Sun's collection of donations is not only 40 above, but 78. If you take the width, the number is even greater, of which there are 20 albums, and the volume of "Twelve Views of Wu Zhao" painted by Shan Ming Shen Zhou is 12. Before that, in 1961, Sun Yufeng donated 24 pieces of porcelain and bronze from his family collection to Shangbo. Among them, the porcelain has a Kangxi cowpea red bottle, which is a rare treasure. In addition, there are Kangxi Lang kiln red bottles, multicolored character bottles, Qianlong kiln change bottles, bronze ware such as Shang Ge Yao, Shang Ding, Shang Jue, Han Shang Fang Mirror, Sun and Moon Mirror, Changyi Sun and Grandson Mirror, Tang Rong Qi Period Bronze Mirror. ”
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In May 1966, when the storm of the Cultural Revolution came, Sun Yufeng was already over the age of flower armor. This old man, who had experienced too many vicissitudes in the world, unexpectedly sealed all the calligraphy and paintings in his collection before the Red Guards rushed to his home to raid them, and declared to the young Red Guards that the person sealed by the seal was an important cultural heritage of the country, and he had decided to donate it to the Shanghai Museum, and it should be accepted by the Shanghai Museum. And immediately called Shangbo, urged someone to receive it quickly, and thus entrusted the collection he had spent his life to Shangbo. The following year, Sun Yufeng died of illness, and before his death, he repeatedly instructed his family to hand over the cultural relics he had hidden to the state.
In the 1980s, sun Yufeng's collection, which had long been dusted, reappeared. When his wife, Wang Defeng, and her eight children gathered to discuss the ownership of his father's inheritance, Wang Defeng said: "We should respect your father's wishes and donate these cultural relics to the country." She spoke plainly as water, but the words were thousands of words. At this point, children understand their parents better, even though they understand that from an economic point of view, this is a great sacrifice. Subsequently, Wang Defeng and his children donated 82 fine calligraphy and paintings from Famous Artists such as Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, Wang Jian, Wang Fei, Yun Shouping, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, and Xu Beihong to Xiangbo. On May 9, 1981, a warm and harmonious spring day, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Cultural Relics held a grand ceremony in Shangbo to receive the donation of calligraphy and paintings from Mrs. Sun Yufeng and her family.
Li Shutong's "Xingshu Huayan Jingju Axis" was donated by Mr. Xia Hongning in 1962. Xia Hongning worked in finance for a long time after 1949, and his other identity was that of the eldest grandson of the famous writer and translator Xia Junzun. There are a large number of correspondence between Xia Junzun and Master Hongyi, for example, the "Xingshu Huayan Sutra sentence axis" was written by Master Hongyi to Xia Junzun, and there is also the upper paragraph of Xia Junzun on it.
Li Shutong "Xingshu Huayan Jing sentence axis" Xia Hongning donated in 1962
Xia Hongning donated the Hongyi Master Couplet
Xia Hongning donated 122 pieces of Li Shutong's handwriting in 1961 and four of Li Shutong's handwriting to the Shanghai Museum in 2004. He donated all the correspondence between Xia Junzun and Master Hongyi to the Shanghai Museum.
The exhibition concludes with a collection of cultural relics donated by Dong Zhujun, Chen Ping, Zhang Yongzhen and several other outstanding female donors who have lived in Shanghai.
Ming Yongle Jingdezhen kiln blue and white flowers and fruit pattern large plate Chen Ping donated in 1956
Rosewood lacquer frame palace lamp Dong Zhujun donated in 1952
Dong Zhujun (1900-1997), a native of Jiangsu, was born in Shanghai, and successively founded the Fuxiang Women's Socks Factory, the Flying Eagle Rickshaw Company, the Qunyi Yarn Pipe Factory, the Shanghai Women's Magazine, the Meiwen Printing Factory, etc. In 1935 and 1936, he opened the Jinjiang Snack and Jinjiang Tea Room, actively participated in the social progress movement, and supported the underground party's revolutionary work. In 1951, the two Jinjiang stores were handed over to the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and on this basis, the Jin Jiang Hotel was opened. In 1952, Dong Zhujun donated 11 pieces of cultural relics such as mahogany furniture and Qing Dynasty paintings to the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee.
Zhang Yongzhen donated a pastel bat pattern bottle from a Jingdezhen kiln in 2004
This Yongzheng pastel bat peach pattern olive bottle was donated by Hong Kong collector Ms. Zhang Yongzhen. Until 2002, the bottle had been used as a table lamp in the new York mansion of the mother's family of mr. Ogden Reed, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, without any protection. The olive bottle appeared in Sotheby's Hong Kong's auction catalogue in 2002 and attracted the interest of many collectors, including Ms. Zhang Yongzhen. Ms. Zhang Yongzhen's father is zhang Zhongying, a famous cultural relics connoisseur in the Republic of China period, good family education and collection vision make her well aware of the value of this artifact, after a fierce bidding, finally for 41.5 million Hong Kong dollars to bid this olive bottle, creating the highest record for the Qing Dynasty porcelain auction at that time. After purchasing the bottle, she immediately donated it to the Shanghai Museum.
(Some of the text in this article refer to the supporting catalogue of the exhibition "Gaoshan Mountain Tour - Cultural Relics Donated by Shanghai Museum")
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