Gốm sứ · Bát Tràng
Fine ceramics
Nothing from that village in this craft at the moment. New works arrive each month; the letter will tell you.
Looking for something that is not here — a size, a colour, a pair? Most of our artisans take commissions, and we will carry the conversation for you.
Commission a workBát Tràng has fired the white clay of the Red River since the fourteenth century: blue-and-white for the trading ships, altar vessels for the court, bowls for half the delta. Most of the village now fires for the trade. A few families keep the slow glazes — celadon that needs a day in a fire starved of oxygen, ash glaze that varies with the wood — and open their kilns at dawn to read the colours truly.
The works here come from those kilns, chosen from each load by the potter. The crackle in a celadon bowl is deliberate; it will take on tea over years, which the village considers the beginning of the bowl's life.
Tableware is glazed to be used. Prices include crating, insured shipping and duties; ceramics travel suspended in their crate.
The makers
Caring for ceramics
Tableware is glazed to be used: hand-wash, no dishwasher, and let a crackle glaze take on tea as it will. Avoid sudden heat — warm a cold bowl before pouring boiling water. Unglazed terracotta drinks oil and wine; that is its patina.
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