Carlton Fine Art & Antique Centre

Description

Annamese ceramic bowl,c15th/16th century. In good condition,slight wear to rim and crazing to glaze due to age. Diameter 19cm.Height 4.5cm. The origins of the Annamese state may be traced to the peoples of the Red River Valley in North Vietnam.After more than 2000 years of contact with the Chinese,they fell under Chinese rule as the result of a Han invasion in 111BC.The region,to which the Chinese gave the name Annam(Pacified South:a name resented by the poeple),comprised all of what later became North Annam & Tonkin.Southern Annam was occupied by the kingdom of the Chams,or Champa from thre late 2nd century AD.In 939 the Annamese drove out the Chinese & established their independance,which they maintained,except for one breif period of Chinese re-occupation(1407 - 28),until their conquest by the French in the 19th century.