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The white road : journey into an obsession
- Title
- The white road : journey into an obsession / Edmund de Waal.
- Author
- De Waal, Edmund
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- 401 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--
- A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected and coveted-- and that would help him understand the clay's mysterious allure. His search eventually takes him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "Originally published in 2015 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
- URL for Further Reading on page 393.
- Contents
- Jingdezhen, Venice, Dublin -- Jingdezhen. On shards ; Sorry ; Mount Kao-ling ; Making and decorating and glazing and firing ; How to make big pots ; Obligations ; Factory #72 ; Counterfeit. Forgery. Sham ; Ten thousand things ; The monk's cap ewer ; I read everything. I understand. Continue ; Setting out ; Men in black ; The Emperor's tea set -- Versailles, Dresden. The latest news from china ; The porcelain pavilion ; Cream-coloured, provincial, and opaque ; Opticks ; The first mode of formation ; Gifts and promises and titles ; The shuffle of things ; A path,. A vocation ; Extraordinarily curious ;There is no gold ; "Double, or even triple, amount of effort" ; Promises, promises ; Half translucent and milk white, like a narcissus ; The invention of Saxon porcelain ; Porcelain rooms, porcelain cities -- Plymouth. The birth of English porcelain ; Three scruples make a dram ; A Quaker! A Quaker! A Quirl! ; A greater rain ; Covering the ground ; Shillings, pebbles, or buttons ; Letters edifying and curious ; Readily stained in use ; china earth ; A shard, which, by leave, he sometimes broke ; Silences ; Tregonning Hill ; Brighter in white objects ; thoughts of whiteness -- Ayoree Mountain, Etruria, Cornwall. An idea of perfect porcelain ; Ayoree Mountain C.F. ; On Englishness ; Endings, beginnings ; A cunning specification ; Gray's Elegy ; A journey into Cornwall ; Thoughts concerning emigration ; A road trip ; 1790 -- London, Jingdezhen, Dachau. Sign & wonders ; 1919 ; Red labour ; Bright earth, fired earth ; What whiteness, what candor ; Allach ; False sail ; Correct in orientation ; Another witness ; The Boehm Porcelain Co. of Trenton, New Jersey -- London, New York, London -- Breathturn.
- ISBN
- 9780374289263
- 0374289263
- LCCN
- 2015022207
- 40025515544
- OCLC
- ocn911255314
- 911255314
- SCSB-5833324
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries