| Edition |
First American edition |
| Phys Descr |
401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in 2015 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain"--Title-page verso |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 393) |
| Contents |
Jingdezhen, Venice, Dublin -- Jingdezhen. On shards ; Sorry ; Mount Kao-ling ; Making and decorating and glazing and firing ; How to make big pots ; Obligations ; Factory #72 ; Counterfeit. Forgery. Sham ; Ten thousand things ; The monk's cap ewer ; I read everything. I understand. Continue ; Setting out ; Men in black ; The Emperor's tea set -- Versailles, Dresden. The latest news from china ; The porcelain pavilion ; Cream-coloured, provincial, and opaque ; Opticks ; The first mode of formation ; Gifts and promises and titles ; The shuffle of things ; A path,. A vocation ; Extraordinarily curious ;There is no gold ; "Double, or even triple, amount of effort" ; Promises, promises ; Half translucent and milk white, like a narcissus ; The invention of Saxon porcelain ; Porcelain rooms, porcelain cities -- Plymouth. The birth of English porcelain ; Three scruples make a dram ; A Quaker! A Quaker! A Quirl! ; A greater rain ; Covering the ground ; Shillings, pebbles, or buttons ; Letters edifying and curious ; Readily stained in use ; china earth ; A shard, which, by leave, he sometimes broke ; Silences ; Tregonning Hill ; Brighter in white objects ; thoughts of whiteness -- Ayoree Mountain, Etruria, Cornwall. An idea of perfect porcelain ; Ayoree Mountain C.F. ; On Englishness ; Endings, beginnings ; A cunning specification ; Gray's Elegy ; A journey into Cornwall ; Thoughts concerning emigration ; A road trip ; 1790 -- London, Jingdezhen, Dachau. Sign & wonders ; 1919 ; Red labour ; Bright earth, fired earth ; What whiteness, what candor ; Allach ; False sail ; Correct in orientation ; Another witness ; The Boehm Porcelain Co. of Trenton, New Jersey -- London, New York, London -- Breathturn |
| Summary |
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Porcelain -- History
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De Waal, Edmund -- Travel
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| OCLC # |
911255314 |
| ISBN # |
9780374289263 |
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0374289263 |
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