Largest Exhibition of Vietnamese Ceramics in North America Opens in January 2012 at the Birmingham Museum of Art

(PRWEB) December 31, 2011

The largest U.S. exhibition to date of Vietnamese ceramics will open in January at the Birmingham Museum of Art, revealing another strength of our outstanding collection, and showing to the public for the first time, one of the top three finest collections of such wares in North America.

Dragons and Lotus Blossoms: Vietnamese Ceramics from the Birmingham Museum of Art is the first major exhibition of Vietnamese pottery in the United States. The exhibition is co-curated by Dr. Donald A. Wood, the BMAs Curator of Asian Art, and John Stevenson, one of the preeminent experts in the field. The exhibition, in the Museums Jemison Galleries, will be on display January 22 through April 8, 2012. The exhibition is free, and open to the public.

This is an opportunity to discover beautiful works of art that are rarely seen in the U.S., Wood said. It is also an opportunity to explore the rich history of a country that not only played an important role in the recent history of the U.S., but also is a vital part of our future.

Through judicious purchases and generous donations, the BMA has acquired over several decades, one of the finest collections of Vietnamese ceramics, keeping company with the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The entire BMA collection –more than 200 pieces of Vietnamese ceramics — will be on display. The collection is fully illustrated in the accompanying catalogue, which features important essays by Stevenson, Wood, and Philippe Truong, an independent expert in Vietnamese ceramics. The catalogue is published and distributed by The University of Washington Press.

There are very few publications in English about Vietnamese ceramics, Wood said. This catalogue contains the most current scholarship on this topic by some of the most respected experts in this field.

As the first large-scale exhibition of Vietnamese ceramics in America, It is also the first exhibition to explore the fascinating history and variety of Vietnamese wares in the U.S., Wood said.

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