Email this article Bleus de Huê: blue-and-white wine bottles in the context of vietnamese cobalt ceramics history
- Authors: Legostaeva A.S.1
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- The State Museum of Oriental Art
- Issue: Vol 7, No 2 S (2023)
- Pages: 41-57
- Section: Culture and Religion
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2618-9453/article/view/131395
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.54631/VS.2023.72-91031
- ID: 131395
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One of the most significant types of Vietnamese ceramics are the vessels decorated in the technique of underglazecobalt painting, known as Bleus de Huê. The article provides a brief history of the appearance of blue-and-white pottery in Vietnam, identifies the heyday and the most widespread distribution of this type of art and the formation of local centers for the production of ceramics and the export of Chinese porcelain to the Vietnamese market.
On the example of these wine bottles, the typology of the main functional forms, variants of artistic design and the symbolism of the decoration of products of the XVIII – early XX centuries are revealed. The relevance of the article is determined by the lack of research on this topic in the Russian-language literature.
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Albina S. Legostaeva
The State Museum of Oriental Art
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Email: albinalegostaeva@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7611-2904
Senior Researcher, Department of Far East, Southeast Asia and Oceania Art
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Figure 1. Vase from the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul. Vietnam, Chudou kilns. 1450. Source: https://nguyenhadesign.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/chiec-binh-gom-chu-dau-o-bao-tang-topkapi-sarayi
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Figure 2. Tyudau ceramics of the 15th century. in the exhibition of the Historical Museum of Hanoi. Photos from open sources
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Figure 3. A jug in the form of a phoenix from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Vietnam, Tudau ovens. XV-XVI centuries Photo from the museum's official website (Public domain)
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Figure 4. Vessels for wine. Vietnam, Batchang. 19th century From the book "Vietnamese ceramics in the Museum of Vietnamese History Ho Chi Minh city" (Collective, 1998, p. 131)
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Figure 4a. Vessels for wine. Vietnam, Batchang. 19th century From the book "Vietnamese ceramics in the Museum of Vietnamese History Ho Chi Minh city" (Collective, 1998, p. 131)
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Figure 5. Fragments of cobalt products as part of the architectural decoration. Memorial complexes near Hue. Vietnam. 19th – early 20th centuries Photo by the author 2005, 2008
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Figure 5a. Fragments of cobalt products as part of the architectural decor. Memorial complexes near Hue. Vietnam. 19th – early 20th centuries Photo by the author 2005, 2008
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Figure 6. Le-Chinh period porcelain with the Khánh xuân thị tả mark from the collection of the Hanoi Historical Museum. Source: https://baotanglichsu.vn/vi/Articles/3101/19234/nhung-con-rong-lai.html
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Figure 7. A wine stack marked 內府 (nội phủ) on the bottom. Vietnam. Late 19th – early 20th century From the collection of the State Museum of the East (SMO) (Moscow)
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Figure 7a. A wine shot glass marked 內府 (nội phủ) on the bottom. Vietnam. Late 19th – early 20th century From the collection of the State Museum of the East (SMO) (Moscow)
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Figure 8. Mai Chung Thu. Peach colour. 1976. Retrieved from: https://tamdiepblog.wordpress.com/2021/11/24/hoi-hoa-viet-nam-the-ky-20-bai-3-bo-tu-sang-lien-nghiem-phai/
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Figure 9. A vase in the shape of a gourd. Vietnam. 19th century? Source: http://elogedelart.canalblog.com/archives/2010/11/06/19531883.html
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Figure 10. Vessel with the image of a dragon among the clouds Vietnam. End of the 19th century - the beginning of the XX century. From the collection of the State Museum of Art (Moscow)
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Figure 11. Vessel depicting dragons playing with a flaming pearl Vietnam. End of the 19th century From the collection of the State Museum of Art (Moscow)
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Figure 12. Vessel with the image of a flying phoenix Vietnam. Second half of the 19th century From the collection of the State Museum of Art (Moscow)
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Figure 13. Vessel with the image of a phoenix Vietnam. End of the 19th century - the beginning of the XX century. From the collection of the State Museum of Art (Moscow)
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Figure 14. Vessel with landscape motifs. Vietnam, Batchang (?). 1970s From the GMV collection
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Figure 15. Vessel with the image of a phoenix. Vietnam, Batchang (?). 1970s From the GMV collection
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