The potter, Võ Thị Sương, is scaping the outside of a cooking pot in Quế An village

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posted on 2025-10-31, 11:37 authored by Cécile de FrancquenCécile de Francquen

After the pots have been left to dry for about half a day, the potter, Võ Thị Sương, turns them upside down on the wheel to scrape and shape the outside.

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

Q31

Rights owner

Cécile de Francquen

Title alt

Nghệ nhân gốm Võ Thị Sương đang cạo mặt ngoài nồi gốm ở làng Quế An

Description alt

Sau khi để khô khoảng nửa ngày, người Nghệ nhân gốm Võ Thị Sương úp ngược chiếc nồi gốm trên bàn quay để cạo và tạo hình bên ngoài cho nó.

Cultural group

Kinh

Participants

Võ Thị Sương

Country

Viet Nam

Place

Quế An, Quế Sơn district, Quảng Nam Province

Item/object

Cooking pot (nồi)

Techniques of production

Pottery – scraped, Pottery – preforming by shaving

Materials

Mineral-clay, Ceramic-pottery

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Đất sét (vietnamese for clay), Đất núng (vietnamese for pottery ; literal. "earth cooked")

Cultural context/event

General production

Location

Workshop

Temporality

To undertake this step, the potter, Võ Thị Sương, needs to let the pots dry for around half a day. Either she will make the pots in the morning and scrape them in the afternoon or make the pots in the afternoon and scrape them the next morning

Date of creation

2023-04-26

Unique ID

2020SG03-Q31-0034