The Mã Niên Lamp is developed from the Mã Niên Horse Sculpture, retaining the image of a horse beside the water—the central design of the collection created by Bát Tràng Museum Atelier (BTMA) and artist Phan Linh.
Its ceramic base continues the original composition, from the horse and water to cloud motifs framed by the silhouette of a traditional saddle. These details are finished with BTMA’s signature layered relief and layered glazing techniques.
Dimension (cm) 51.5 × 30 × 65
Technique Overlapping glaze
Color Available in multiple colors—Explore more on Bát Tràng Museum Atelier (BTMA)’s Facebook page —Click here
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In the lamp edition, the bamboo-and-dó paper lampshade draws from Phan Linh’s memories of wooden boats carrying ceramics and bamboo along the rivers—an image once familiar across many Vietnamese craft villages. More than introducing a new material, bamboo and dó paper place ceramics in dialogue with other traditional crafts that have long been part of Vietnamese daily life. Familiar materials are thus brought together in a new form.
The ceramic base preserves the flowing lines of the horse by the water, while the lampshade is reduced to a simple geometric form reminiscent of a cloud. Ceramic, bamboo and dó paper come together in a balanced composition, bringing together heaviness and lightness, solidity and openness, movement and stillness. The Mã Niên Lamp continues the spirit of the collection through BTMA’s approach of transforming traditional materials, cultural values, and a sense of origin into designs for contemporary living.
More on Bát Tràng Museum Atelier (BTMA)’s Facebook page —Click here.
Bát Tràng Museum Atelier (BTMA) — The 50-year-old workshop of Bát Tràng Museum, founded by the late People’s Artisan Vũ Thắng.
