porcelain

Porcelain-painting during the French revolution

17 August 2024 9:00 am

People don’t accumulate stuff any more. When the late Victorian houses on our street change hands their interiors are stripped…

A passion for pots

3 April 2021 9:00 am

The use of ‘Ceramic’ rather than ‘Ceramics’ in the title of this book indicates Paul Greenhalgh’s passionate belief that ‘ceramic…

White glazed bowl, Shunzhi-Kangxi period, Qing dynasty, 1650–70

A terrible beauty

19 September 2015 8:00 am

A.S. Byatt on the dark, deadly secrets lurking beneath a calm, white surface