Treasures of Chinese Porcelain

Treasures of Chinese Porcelain: 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. 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…

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Post author:HDclump
Post published:December 18, 2017
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Ceramics A Fragile History – The Art of the Potter ep.3

Towards the end of the 19th century, a group of craftsmen decided to break the monopoly of the great ceramic factories.

ceramics a fragile history

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Post author:HDclump
Post published:December 17, 2017
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Ceramics A Fragile History – The Age of Wedgwood ep.2

Second film charts the rags to riches-to-rags epic of Stoke-on-Trent, a city built on clay and the heart of Britain's once world-beating ceramics empire.

Ceramics

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Post author:HDclump
Post published:December 15, 2017
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Ceramics A Fragile History – The Story of Clay ep.1

The first film in this three-part series looks at a history of domestic pottery in Britain from Tudor times onwards, tracing the evolution of its different techniques and styles, and examining what our pots can tell us in intimate detail how preceding generations lived and saw themselves.

Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest

The story of how filmmakers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s.