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Title: BBC Treasures Of Chinese Porcelain 2011
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Type.................: TV Series
Part Size............: 50,000,000
Number of Parts......: 15
Compression Format...: RAR
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Posted by............: johncymru
Posted to............: alt.binaries.documentaries
Posted on............: 20131104
Original Air Datew...: 20111011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sttj
In November 2010, a Chinese vase unearthed in a suburban semi in Pinner sold at
Chinese vases so famous and so expensive? The answer lies in the European
obsession with Chinese porcelain that began in the 16th century and by the 18th
century was a full-blown craze that swept up kings, princes and the emerging
middle classes alike.
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 - a secret process concealed
from envious Western eyes. For a time porcelain became more valuable than gold
- it was a substance so fine, so resonant and so strong that it drove Europeans
mad trying to copy it.
Carrying his own newly-acquired vase, Lars uncovers the secrets of China's
porcelain capital, Jingdezhen, before embarking on the arduous 400-mile journey
to the coast that every piece of export porcelain would once have travelled. He
sees how the trade between China and Europe not only changed our idea of what
was beautiful - by introducing us to the idea of works of art we could eat off
- but also began to affect the whole tradition of Chinese aesthetics too, as
the ceramicists of Jingdezhen sought to meet the European demand for porcelain
decorated with family coats of arms, battle scenes or even erotica.
The porcelain fever that gripped Britain drove conspicuous consumption and
fuelled the Georgian craze for tea parties. Today the new emperors - China's
rising millionaire class - are buying back the export wares once shipped to
Europe. The vase sold in Pinner shows that the lure of Chinese porcelain is as
compelling as ever.
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