VietAuction brings the antiques held in Vietnamese collections to a transparent local auction, with every piece appraised, numbered and catalogued.
Every item we offer is registered in the official national database.
Auctions are organized by VietAuction in collaboration with partners. Our focus is Vietnamese and Chinese ceramics from the 7th to the 20th century. We work with owners and collectors across the country, and our first sale, Ceramic Legacies: Echoes of Time, was held at the Majestic Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on 10 May 2026.
Every piece we handle is examined by an appraiser, measured, photographed and given a permanent VietAuction item number. Certificates from any appraisal organization are recorded against that number, so a piece keeps one identity from the day it reaches us. The same numbers power the public catalogue at vietauction.org.
Ceramics are one of the longest unbroken records of Vietnamese life. The pieces in our auctions follow five stages of that story, and the figure beside each stage is the number of lots in Echoes of Time 2 that belong to it.
Glazed stoneware from the first millennium shows how long potters in the Red River region have worked with fire and glaze, long before the first independent dynasties.
Under the Lý (1009–1225) and Trần (1225–1400) courts, potters refined celadon and ivory-white glazes for temples, palaces and daily life.
Kilns such as Chu Đậu in Hải Dương made blue-and-white and painted wares that travelled by sea across Southeast Asia and beyond. A 15th-century cargo found off Cù Lao Chàm in the 1990s is the best-known evidence of that trade.
Ports such as Hội An brought Chinese export porcelain into Vietnamese homes, and the Nguyễn court at Huế (1802–1945) commissioned its own fine blue-and-white services.
Late wares record how older forms continued in workshops and homes into the modern era.
Antiques that have a trusted place to be bought and sold at home stay in Vietnam, stay documented and stay valued. This is the market we are building.
When owners and collectors can sell openly in Vietnam, fine pieces have less reason to leave through informal channels. More of the national record remains in the country.
Permanent item numbers, certificates and a logged chain of owners make authentic pieces easier to prove and copies harder to pass off.
Families who hold inherited pieces get a public, contract-backed sale instead of private offers, and buyers know what they are paying for.
Measurements, descriptions, photographs and provenance are kept in a searchable catalogue that students, museums and researchers can learn from.
Appraisal, conservation, photography, publishing and events create skilled jobs and bring collectors, and tourism spending, to Vietnamese cities.
67 ceramics from Vietnam and China, arranged by form. Each lot lists the catalogue page and VietAuction item number. Starting prices are given in the printed catalogue and are not shown online.
Registering is free and takes a minute. We use these details to reach you about this auction, and we never publish them.
We do not ask for ID numbers online. If you win a lot, identity details are collected on the contract.
Our team will contact you on the number you gave. Keep an eye out for a message about Echoes of Time 2.