Valorificarea colecțiilor muzeale. Cataloage de colecție – colecțiile de ceramică și podoabe aparținând Muzeului Satului Bănățean Timișoara
Valorisation of museum collections. Collection catalogues – collections of ceramics and ornaments belonging to the Museum of the Banat Village Timișoara

Summary/Abstract: Within Banat Village Museum there is a collection of Banat finery and jewelry. We are talking about dozen of pieces of patrimony with a documentary and artistic value which imposed the apparition of a catalogue achieved under special graphic conditions, bilingual in order to promote the values of Banat patrimony to a wider public. The catalogue entitled: Sign and Symbol. Banat finery (I) Ceremonial finery proposing the presentation of ceremonial pieces (used in wedding and funeral ceremonials – two essential stages from man’s life) following that in the future in another catalogue to be included the festive pieces existing in the finery collection of Banat Village Museum. Ceremonial finery, „opreg” with tassels, “conciu” with all his variants and not least the bridal crown (“mununa”) represents the object of this catalogue, which consists of a number of 25 pieces. Another valuable collection is the one of pottery, consisting of over 2000 ceramic crockery belonging to the pottery centers of Banat which existed at a certain time (Biniş, Potoc, Socolari, Slatina–Nera, Sasca Romană, Lăpuşnicul Mare, Moceriş, Curtea, Lugoj, Jupâneşti, Româneşti) as well as from the pottery centers neighboring to Banat such as Birchişul, Lipova, Bacaul de Mijloc and Siseşti.The object of the catalogue entitled by us: Jupânești Pottery (I) Ritual Pottery, is represented by Jupăneşti pottery with ritual character, used in burial practices, pottery reduced as variety and even as circulation, because the ritual vessel is used only for one sense and for a long period of time, talking even about its preservation and its transmission from one generation to another.The catalogue of the pieces consists of a number of 26 ceramic crockery (respectively, 25 glazed and unglazed pots (jugs for alms) and a censer.The second volume of the catalogue in discussion: Jupânești Pottery (II) Common household pottery. Vessels of great capacity, which makes the object of the C category in which are divided the ceramic vessels respectively, vessels for preparing the food. The pots for feasts, the great pots and the boilers for boiling plum brandy) represent the object of the catalogue which consists of a number of 15 pieces.

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