Dragons and lotus blossoms: Vietnamese ceramics from the Birmingham Museum of Art

摘要

The beautifully presented Dragons and lotus blossoms catalogue was published to accompany an exhibition of Vietnamese ceramics at Alabama's Birmingham Museum of Art. The strength of this impressive collection, which covers almost two thousand years of ceramic production, lies in the creativity and beauty of several extraordinary pieces dating from the Ly and Tran dynasties, eleventh-fourteenth centuries CE. The broad range of Tran era glaze types and decorative styles are also well represented. During the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries large quantities of ceramics were exported from Vietnam to Southeast Asia and West Asia and the exhibits on pp. 166-209 indicate the diverse decorative styles of such tradewares.