Vietnamese Ceramics History

It is a mere mile three kilometres from the hoi an ancient town the scent of wood burning in the kiln will hit your olfactory senses as you walk through the narrow pathways that form a maze through the villager s simple riverside homes.

Vietnamese ceramics history.

The earliest wares were most likely those han inspired wares with shapes imitating the bronze wares of the period. Vietnam s role in the global ceramic trade of the 15 th and 16 th centuries came to light in the 1980s following the reexamination of an ancient vase that previously was attributed to a chinese workman. Raw clays are harvested from several locations in the mud flats of the mekong river delta and are then combined to produce a blended clay precisely to the master potter s specifications. Tt pottery is a family owned and operated pottery factory located in binh duong south of vietnam.

They are different from the chinese early celadon wares greenware of the same period. The village is located in the thanh ha ward of quang nam province just off one of the tributaries of the thu bon river. Vietnamese ceramics refers to ceramic art and pottery as a form of vietnamese art and industry. Vietnamese blue and white ceramic water pipe with figural and script decoration rain mark to base an annamese pale celadon glazed bowl ly dynasty 10 12th century the shaped rounded sides ending in an unglazed rim small hairline crackat rim.

Ceramics is one of the important inventions of our ancestors for thousands of generations ceramics has been closely linked with the lives of our people. Under ly dynasty 1010 to 1225 vietnamese ceramics underwent a highly creative period with dramatically changes in the design of numerous ceramics. Vietnamese pottery and ceramics has a long history spanning back to thousands of years ago including long before chinese domination as archeological evidence supports. Vietnam ancient pottery at the vietnam history museum and the vietnam fine arts museum.

Pale grayish green violet green etc. Our products specialties include unique outdoor glazed and unglazed pots planters jars vases urns and water fountains. White and black and iron brown glazed ceramics were also produced. Ceramics from tt pottery come in a variety of shapes and sizes including extra large and tall.

Much of vietnamese pottery and ceramics after the chinese domination era was largely influenced by chinese ceramics but has. Those products were slender in shape and covered with an emerald glaze in different colors. Vietnam remains one of the safest and most buoyant ceramic markets in the world and with its strong industry there continues to be an enthusiasm and a willingness for the show to proceed and so it has been decided that the later dates of the 8 9 december 2020 will provide sufficient time during this period of adjustments to adapt and enable the safe and successful staging of vietnam ceramics 2020. These flower pots are hand crafted using techniques rooted in centuries of ceramic tradition.