Worship object in Hue royalty

“Vietnamese ancient jade” is the special temporary exhibition that is the first time showed to the visitors by the National Museum of Vietnamese History. This exhibition is a small part in the large collections of the Museum. Hopefully in the near future, when the new National Museum completed, these precious objects will be spent a worthy space for exhibition to serve the public.

In feudal dynasties, jade was used for carving on the crown, scepter, seal, sword, saddle … and use a variety of pajamas, jewelry of kings and royalty. Not only rare, but jade was widely revered because of it’s mystery. The ancients believed that jade has super capabilities, such as: treating, helping for the immortality, keeping the dead body intact forever and bringing blessings … Because of the rare and precious, so the jade artifacts were carefully crafted, fine art, showing the high ingenious of Vietnamese traditional artisans.

The National Museum of Vietnamese History where stored many rare and precious collections of artifact. In particular, including the collection of ancient jade, with the large number, diverse in form and color, dating from pre and early historic time until the early 20th century.

Most of the gems are dated from the Le and Nguyen dynasties. Some, however, were much older from prehistoric period.

Seal in Nguyen Dynasty

An ancient urn of the Nguyen dynasty

02 Aug - 02 Nov 2011. Vietnam History Museum. 01 Pham Ngu Lao Str, Hanoi