2/4 Treasures of Chinese Porcelain

• Treasures of Chinese P...
First broadcast: 11 Oct 2011.
In November 2010, a Chinese vase unearthed in a suburban semi in Pinner sold at auction for £43 million - a new record for a Chinese work of art. Why are Chinese vases so famous and so expensive? The answer lies in the European obsession with Chinese porcelain that began in the 16th century.
In this documentary Lars Tharp, the Antiques Roadshow expert and Chinese ceramics specialist, sets out to explore why Chinese porcelain was so valuable then - and still is now. He goes on a journey to parts of China closed to Western eyes until relatively recently. Lars travels to the mountainside from which virtually every single Chinese export vase, plate and cup began life in the 18th century - a mountain known as Mount Gaolin, from whose name we get the word kaolin, or china clay. He sees how the china clay was fused with another substance, mica, that would turn it into porcelain.

[@denysephenix2349]

I have watched this wonderful series on Chinese porcelain and I always loved chinese art because of the patience and care chinese artist put into their work.. no w I find out that they put their lives on the line for us to see and appreciate these marvelous works of art. thank you so much for this wonderful film.

[@avantilicious]

what she said

[@dannyhowood563]

Wonderful Chinese Porcelain..

[@russianteahistory]

thank you for the beautiful video about porcelain :0)

[@chobson8602]

13:50 pure artistry this is amazing!!!!!

[@IrishAnnie]

We went to Amsterdam and there are the most beautiful examples of the Dutch porcelain. The tulip vases are so HUGE! There were even porcelain violins (for decor only)

[@justmeonthebeach]

Nice

[@wawazuzzy2064]

WOW!

[@lynnegunn3478]

So very interesting

[@gato_fofo]

TOP!

[@susprime7018]

Working the line Ming style.

[@kcngyoutube]

古董的价值是相当有趣的，你可以说他价值连城，也可以说他一文不值，你给穷人一个碗，不如给他一碗饭，你给富人一碗饭，不如给他一个碗。

[@mori2162]

Old Chinese painting is more on isometric while european is more on perspective .

[@brunof.4706]

3:43 "the Portuguese first"

[@UddinSyaf-zn1py]

Saya punya barang antik piring dan mangkok dinasty song

[@MrBlinder514]

for those gigantic pieces...sorry not my cut of tea.

[@IrishAnnie]

Moonlight Well, you have to have a palace to put them in.....

[@chocolatefaerie]

Bisque not biscuit - ___-

[@TinTeddyVideos]

They are both words for the same thing.

[@chocolatefaerie]

@@TinTeddyVideos no Bru, not in pottery

[@morganolfursson2560]

Another one who is an embarrassment is Felicity . Gosh she is tragic . She didn't invent shit, she can't create shit , and she acts like she is almost a teacher in porcelain , when anybody in the village is more qualified and has more experience than her . As for her creation, well, there is a reason they called the local stray dog who piss on walls everywhere , Felicity . Which is a shame because her husband the Japanese potter Takeshi Yasuda is really nice and very humble . Though i really don't like his work . I visited his workshop (well he is the director of Jingdezhen pottery worshop) and i must say his shapes are so unattractive . As for felicity's pieces , they are extremely boring to look at . Especially when you take a walk around Jingdezhen and see the masterpieces that local artists produce . There is a french potter called Francoise, very humble , working in the corner of a tiny workshop under the tutoring of a Chinese master , and she really makes exquisite porcelain . But no felicity is neither a skilled potter, nor a skilled artist .

[@goldenrules5697]

You are very deep knowledge and details

[@andihajar3412]

Felicity?

[@AnOdinaryReaper]

So if my location is off how does KZbin give me a local ad🤔

[@hojoinhisarcher]

jan 23

[@rebuzz6866]

@13:50 what a joke she is...

[@morganolfursson2560]

Why aren't you honest and say that the best pieces were stolen from China . Also you need to explain where the word porcelain comes from and therefore talk about Marco Polo who was the first to introduce porcelain to Europe thanks to trade with arabs and not at all with China . You need to also explain that the word porcelain(not China) is italian in origin, coming from the word porccelino , which means little pig, but in that case is the name of a seashell as the Italians who first saw porcelain thought that it looked and felt like the seashell they call Porccelino di mare , or Little pig from the sea . You also forget to mention that the blue and white design is not Chinese at all but Arabic as the pigment chinese used was imported from Iran where it had been used for centuries and even the Chinese referred to it as Muhammad Blue . You don't even talk about why Porcelain from Jingdezhen became popular during the Sung dynasty rather than celadon , which was WAY more favored by the Ming's emperors . You are deliberately forgetting A LOT of facts in your documentary . Making it about England and Europe when actually , Europe was the last market to ever discover porcelain, Arabs (well all of the middle east, even Egyptians) , Indians, Japaneses, Koreans, all knew Chinese porcelain long before Europe ever heard of it . and if it wasn't for the Italians, the Brits would have never found out about it . Damn if you are going to make a documentary, do your freaking homework . England or Britain is the smallest market of porcelain and was for centuries, the chinese couldn't give less of a damn about that small island .

[@user-sc8cy5qc6e]

Wow, Sharp and spot on!

[@tamaracarter1836]

England was certainly not the “smallest market“ for porcelain, it was immensely popular and still is; if you visit any one of the thousands of English Stately Homes that exist you will no doubt see a very fine collection of English, French and Chinese porcelain.

[@rogerthat5459]

Burning wood pollutes the air. And cutting down all those trees?

[@chobson8602]

thank god for electrification

[@ezragonzalez8936]

Chinese English manuals still have the same problem!! with making any sense! bahaha

[@morganolfursson2560]

Luisa Mengoni, the Chinese had a sense of perspective , many paintings are irrefutable evidence of that. They just didn't use it on porcelain ware . You have to do your homework before taking the name of Curator of chinese collections . You are an embarrassment to the profession . But then again, you're Italian, you people have a tendency to think that you invented everything because of the renaissance , when actually everything was imported (read stolen) from Persian and the rest of Asia through the infamous silk road . And you dare calling those workmen on the mistake they made when they wrote Latin inscriptions , when no European of that time could write Chinese and the peasants or even potters in Europe at that time and still today can't write Latin either so give the Chinese a break Luisa . At least these potters were able to make something that nobody in the west could make . And Europeans were the ones passing orders to the Chinese to create pieces with western style patterns and inscriptions and then you dare insult them about the mistakes they made You really are an embarrassment . Typical western complex of superiority and sheer arrogance, you beg a fucking belief . And i have to say , after spending some time in Italy, the Italian are only second to the Brits when it comes to white supremacist complex, even the French could take an evening class .

[@drmodestoesq]

Thank god the Han Chinese have no sense of ethnocentric cultural superiority.

[@justiceforsethrichwwg1wga160]

drmodestoesq But they do....

[@morganolfursson2560]

@@drmodestoesq They rightfully do, What is a lot less understandable and acceptable is the Europeans demonstrating the same sense of ethnocentric cultural superiority . I enjoyed your sarcastic answer , mine however, isn't .

[@drmodestoesq]

@@morganolfursson2560 Now I understand a little bit more why Scandinavians think they should vanish from human history and why their ethnic homelands should be re-populated by Middle Eastern Muslims.

[@morganolfursson2560]

@@drmodestoesq You wrote it , i didn't . I don't consider myself culturally inferior , but maybe you should.

[@joie8399]

he touches a lot of things i don't think is meant to be touched

[@lailahroga7988]

14:06 is an abomination and typical of current day lazy art for profit.

[@eshuowoshishen8547]

The westerner should pay the fee for the intellectual property. The commercial spies went to Jingdezhen and stole the skills there.

[@MirrorscapeDC]

the people who invented porcelain are literally 1000 years dead. There is a reason patents expire after a time.

[@mustafa8988]

That modern arts woman is so repulsive. What she is doing is am embarrasment. Shameful how these chareltons are allowed to call themselves artists.

[@Raphael3032]

little hints of imperial racism as all bbc documentaries

[@chrisredfield6404]

This documentary stinks of Orientalism.

[@drmodestoesq]

Or..This documentary is full of the rich sweet aroma of Orientalism.