Like other agricultural countries in South-East Asia, Vietnam has a long-time tradition in ceramics production. In nearly ten thousand years of existence and development, ceramics have accompanied the vietnamese people in all activities of social life .
Like other agricultural countries in South-East Asia, Vietnam has a long-time tradition in ceramics production. In nearly ten thousand years of existence and development, ceramics have accompanied the vietnamese people in all activities of social life.
Together with Bat Trang and Tho Ha, Phu Lang is one the three renowned centers of popular ceramics in the old Kinh Bac region, specialized in the production of yellow enamelled ceramics and its variations such as eel-skin enamel, or light yellow, dark yellow, brown yellow enamels… The products of the village are rather various, from complicated sculptured worship objects to simple domestic utensils.
The artist Vu Huu Nhung, one of the natives of the ceramics village Phu Lang, has grown from a ceramics worker to become an artiste. His products originate from the traditional ceramics of Phu Lang. With his researches for an own style, an own language, the ceramics of Nhung have taken form and contribute to give a style and a new life to the ceramics village Phu Lang in contemporary life.
On the occasion of the National Day 2/9/2006, the Museum of History of Vietnam organizes the exhibition “Phu Lang ceramics, before and nowadays” to present the collection of old Phu Lang ceramics (17-18 centuries) of the Museum, the collections of certain privates together with the collection of ceramics Nhung, an artist of Phu Lang. The exhibition is a combination of the two trends of ceramics, traditional and contemporary.
Address: Museum of History of Vietnam,
N0 1, Pham Ngu Lao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.
Time: From 29/8 to the middle of 10/2005.
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