Vietnamese ceramics on display in the US

A Vietnamese ceramics exhibition titled “Dragon and Lotus Blossoms”, the largest ever of its kind in the US is being held at the Birmingham Museum of Art in the State of Alabama.

A Vietnamese ceramics exhibition titled “Dragon and Lotus Blossoms”, the largest ever of its kind in the US is being held at the Birmingham Museum of Art in the State of Alabama. The show was organized by Dr. Donald A Wood, the museum’s curator of Asian Art and John Stevenson, one of the US’s leading experts in Asian Art.

The exhibition displays more than 200 objects of Vietnamese ceramics, including ones from 15th and 16th century with typical decorations in blue and white. According to Wood, although adopting this art from China, Vietnamese created unique characteristics and developed production technologies to create the finest ceramics in Southeast Asia. 
 
The complete collection is featured in the exhibition’s accompanying catalogues, which contains the latest researches and valuable essays by Stevenson, Wood and independent experts on Vietnamese ceramics. 
 
 
Blue glaze, one of the objects displayed in Dragon and Lotus Blossoms exhibition
 
Having collected Vietnamese ceramic objects since 1970, the Birmingham Museum of Art owns one of the largest collections in the US now. While there are very few publications in English on Vietnamese ceramics, the catalogue presented by the museum in the ongoing exhibition is highly appreciated. 
The exhibition is running until April 8th, 2012. 

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