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It's believed that he brought back from China a porcelain jar made in Dehua that's today housed in St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. Dehua porcelain was shipped to Europe in large quantities and became ...

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Video. A summer festival in Japan’s Saga Prefecture is offering visitors a sensory experience with the soft sounds of porcelain wind chimes made by local artisans.

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During the Ming dynasty, China's porcelain production flourished, creating vases and cups that symbolised status and artistry, being extremely expensive.

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Published 05/08/2025 last updated 05/08/2025 European countries, including Germany, are commemorating the end of World War II on the continent. Europe's deadliest war came to an end 80 years ago.

Chinoiserie was not only a style but an ideology. The arrival of blue-and-white porcelain in Europe some 500 years ago (first as ballast on merchant ships from China) ignited an obsession with the ...

He was an expert on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow for more than 25 years, was a founding member of the French Porcelain Society, and wrote four books on pottery.

Robert Pinsky revisits Czesław Miłosz’s poem “Song on Porcelain,” and asks what Americans have valued in their own cultural past that might now feel lost or troubling.