Created by Bát Tràng Museum Atelier (BTMA) in collaboration with artist Lê Viết Sử, this collection presents four ceramic creatures: Corgi Horse, Dachs Horse, Bench Buffalo, and Brick Buffalo, inspired by two familiar animals in Vietnam’s agricultural life and distills their defining features into geometric sculptural forms.
Compact in scale, each piece can be used as a paperweight, toothpick holder, or candle stand.
Dimension (cm) 22×4×10 (Dachs) — 11×4×11 (Corgi)
Technique Overlapping glaze
Color Available in multiple colors—Explore more on Bát Tràng Museum Atelier (BTMA)’s Facebook page —Click here
Price Red: 1700 (Dachs) — 1100 (Corgi)
Others: 1600 (Dachs) — 1000 (Corgi)
Dachs —The rider mounted on horseback recalls familiar figures found in traditional Vietnamese art, while evoking the enduring relationship between people and working animals in everyday rural life.
Corgi —This work reconstructs the memory of a lost ceramic horse sculpture—a keepsake once given to Lê Viết Sử by the father of the late People’s Artisan Vũ Đức Thắng. Long after the original sculpture disappeared, its image continued to appear throughout the artist’s paintings. Its form also recalls the guardian horses traditionally placed in communal houses and temples across Northern Vietnam.
The works emerge from the artist’s memories and years of observation. Their ceramic surfaces draw on a range of visual references, including motifs from Đông Sơn bronze drums, textile patterns of Vietnam’s highland communities, and the distinctive spiral lines found in Vietnamese folk paintings. Rather than reproducing these motifs directly, the artist selects their essential elements and integrates them into the form of each sculpture.
Bát Tràng Museum Atelier (BTMA) – The 50-year-old workshop of Bát Tràng Museum, founded by the late People’s Artisan Vũ Thắng.
