NOVA: And what makes Chinese porcelain so durable ... which each have several thousand years' history. On the other hand, you also do not have the heavy burden of history and tradition and ...

Porcelain, often referred to as "white gold," has captivated societies across the globe for centuries with its delicat ...

The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...

The market for Chinese ceramics – always regarded as the most exquisite ... Master potter Edmund de Waal, who wrote The White ...

The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a ...

White Gold The history of porcelain in Europe starts with Marco Polo. In the 14th century, the explorer brought a small jar from China back to Europe with him and Chinese porcelain became a ...

Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China ‘A masterwork of accessible, interdisciplinary scholarship that tells the fascinating story of the world's great porcelain – producing centre, Jingdezhen. The ...

Kilns ignited again as their storied history returns to life in front ... time-honored ceramic tradition of the city known as "China's porcelain capital". In China's porcelain capital of ...

Young Post met Joseph Tso Chi-chung, one of the few remaining Cantonese porcelain artisans left in Hong Kong. Tso still runs his own business in Kowloon Bay, Yuet Tung China Works – the first ...

This cup was produced at Jingdezhen, the acknowledged centre of the Chinese porcelain industry. Porcelainware production was industrialised and different workers were responsible for separate ...