Nguyen Huu Hoang, a resident of the former imperial capital city of Hue, is an antiques collector. But what makes his collection different from most is that he specializes in collecting a rare kind of porcelain: Nguyen Dynasty’s Custom-made pattern porcelains.
Nguyen Dynasty’s Custom-made pattern porcelains, also known amongst historians and collectors as: “Blues de Hue” (Hue’s blue-enamel porcelains), were special limited edition pieces designed for the royal court, ordered and finished overseas to exacting specifications. They were usually made in small numbers, sometimes as a lone piece.
