These instruments blend the traditional art of porcelain making with musical functionality and cover different categories of instruments, such as chimes, drum, erhu (Chinese fiddle), and flutes.
Craig Clunas - University of Oxford ‘The City of Blue and White is an authoritative, comprehensive, and riveting account of the natural and human ecologies of porcelain-making in Jingdezhen from the ...
porcelain plates, and fabrics make their way through the rest of the space. Jacu says he wanted the space to feel warm and inviting, too – a hotel room shouldn't feel like a museum, after all.
A porcelain-making company, called Royal Crown Derby, is already manufacturing souvenir pottery. Louise Adams from the company says "we started designing, truly, about two years ago." It is big ...
The firstborn son was followed by a brother and a sister in a family that has made porcelain for four generations and was trained to inherit the family's ceramic making skills since he was a child.
The porcelain came in two styles ... Chopsticks are estimated to have been invented sometime around 1200 B.C., making them more than 3,000 years old. By 500 A.D., the technology had spread ...