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#1 I was able to find shards of porcelain in the dirt near the farmer's house. They were the base of a twelfth-century wine cup, a fine tapering stem holding a jagged bowl, a thumb's breadth across. It was impossibly thin.
#2 The kilns were long gone, but the bricks were used for a shed or pigsty, and the slopes were useful for building into. The bamboo and these long...
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An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with the Amber Eyes. In The White Road, bestselling author and artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate narrative history of...
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