The entire 7 centuries of Bat Trang pottery village (14th - 20th century) are encapsulated in the special exhibition Bat Trang Ancient Pottery at the National Museum of History in Hanoi from May 18 to September 30. "Bat Trang pottery village produces many precious ceramic items with their own unique characteristics, which have been favored for many centuries from the village to the royal court, from folk worship items to diplomatic tributes," said Dr. Nguyen Viet Doan, Director of the National Museum of History in Hanoi.
Pair of 14th century enamel painted brown flower candlesticks
Ceramic works are also selected according to each period of development of the village. The 14th century was the period when Bat Trang ceramics flourished thanks to the open industrial and commercial policy. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Bat Trang was a specialized production center with high-tech and artistic products, both sold domestically and exported. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Bat Trang ceramics still had a significant domestic market with household items, worship items, decorative items and construction bricks... "The exhibition also shows that Bat Trang is a living museum of the history of Vietnamese ceramics," said Mr. Doan.
The 14th century ancient ceramics selected for exhibition include brown flower jars with embossed dragons painted in brown glaze and painted with faint indigo glaze, blue flower plates... They were chosen because this was the period when ancient Bat Trang mainly produced bowls, plates, and basins with white, jade, and brown glazes; jars, basins, and lampstands with brown flower patterns and bowls, plates, and vases with "pre-blue glaze". "Pre-blue glaze" ceramics are a type of ceramic that uses the technique of painting blue with a brush under a layer of glossy white glaze, the patterns are mainly lines, flowers and leaves drawn very roughly and faintly. This type of ceramic quickly reached an excellent level in the 15th century...
Ivory, moss green and brown enamel house model, 17th century
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Bat Trang also had to "turn" to the upper class's preference for Chinese ceramics. Accordingly, Bat Trang ceramics of this period, in addition to traditional themes, also featured themes imported from abroad based on Chinese legends such as "The Fisherman Makes a Profit", "Su Wu Herds Goat", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea"... The exhibits include a pair of blue-painted crackle-glazed basin bases with the theme of Dragon Horse - River Map/Divine Turtle - Luo Shu; blue-painted crackle-glazed jars with the theme of mountains and rivers...
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