Vietnamese White ware
November 14th 2009 08:14
Vietnamese white ware ceramics
Well cream and ivory and not the perfect shiny white of chinese whiteware but still of interest.
White Ceramic bowl
this is probably a white slip over stoneware with a clear glaze.
book cover
the ewers on the book cover are a shape unique to Viet ceramics.
iron oxide brush work
While the potters of the Cizhou kilns may have been the first in east asia to be used iron slip appplied by a brush to paint decorations the Vietnamese may have the next.
The iron oxide pigment in the slip fires black or sepia brown.
To those familiar with Jpanese Karatsu and Mino ... yes the Viet kilns were doing this BEFORE the Japanese did!
While the Viet items show lively and lovely brush work like most other east asian kilns they switched over to blue and white ware when the use of cobalt as an underglaze pigment spread from the Islamic world into China and East Asia.
viet blue and white ware
The Vietnamese had a preference for images of birds and fishes.
Dont jus ttake my word for it!
Visit the library and see if they have any books on South East Asian Cermaics!
You cant find everything on Google and the image quality in some books will be better!
Enjoy!
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