I inherited a rather large collection of Chinese porcelain spanning nearly a thousand years of Chinese history, from the early porcelain of the Shang to the more elaborate Ming dynasty. Not even poverty could bring me to part with them.

I am addicted to blue and white things. Fabrics, China, art, etc. I am sitting in a room with blue and white around me....delicious, meditative and as sedative as the clouds in a blue sky or the white caps on a blue sea....

So wonderful! These Chinese have blessed this world with many amazing things!

Eastern artisans are the best in the world I think, their skill in embroidery’s , porcelain, painting and metal work is unrivalled

The rest of the documentary is SIMPLY SPLENDID.

Amazing programme you tell the story beautifully, more please

That is beautiful thing to collect them , I like the porcelain and even ceramics if the design is interesting , not just paintings on them ,but also the shapes are fantastic .And the crystals are beautiful , the sparks of colours and the sound of them so thin....... and long.......And the natural stones , with the venice inside ,in many different colours . Even the wood is beautiful material with characteristics wooden patterns like ( slopes and sewings ) .

Absolutely stunning examples in this video.

Yes, knowlege of Chinese porcelain found it's way right to my ears as a young girl. But trully, I did not know it was this remarkable.

The Era where "Made in china" would be considered the best.

The display at 7:19 is mind blowing!

Thank you for sharing. It's absolutely beautiful work.

Chinese porcelain is truly exquisite!

Wow, many of these porcelain back then still beat the modern dinning wares produced today. 0:22 what a beauty

Working with porcelain is not easy to work with. When form an object you can't use too much water it'll collapse, work it too much it'll collapse. But once fired it is hard to break or chip and color of glazes really standout. And many of the patterns or pictures on the porcelain are hundreds of years old.

Love this documentary, one of the best on youtube.

Last year I found an early Ming Dynasty vase at a thrift store worth tens of thousands of dollars. Sad thing is I had no idea at the time what it was or it’s worth and I didn’t buy it for $8 😩

One of sources for trade surplus, together with tea, silk and many others.

Китайская посуда - это ВЕРХ керамического мастерства!!!! Бело-синее "золото".... Сине-белая "драгоценность"... Дух захватывает!!!!!от простых "черепков"-БРИЛЛИАНТОВ мира посуды!!!! Обычная кухонная утварь - НЕОБЫЧНОГО народа, который, придумал ЛЕГЕНДУ!!!!прошедшую тысячелетний путь..... Восхищение древними МАСТЕРАМИ, их фантазией и их руками!!!!!

Beautiful antique Chinese porcelain

Mind boggling. Thank you.

Just beautiful.

Great vid!!! Wonderful to learn/ review!!!

I can not afford the real thing & certainly not antique. It is so beautiful & so beautifully decorated

This is so good i felt transported

Very sad that the ancient china stay only in the history. But i am still very proud to be a chinese as our culture, our philosophy and our ancient history is irreplaceable and priceless for the human beings.

LOVESS THIS SERIESSS :DDD THANK YOU!!!

I have porcelain fever too then lol , love this video

Here cos Kelly Jiayi Wang and her three videos taught me the manifold ways in which viscous white pastel can be used in art, especially facial art!

And the mini decoration fountains with the colourful lights which can places on the table or anywhere , i love them and the mini houses, like makiety , models with the lights everywhere in , out . And miniatures of big things but in smaller sizes , they looks so cute and sweet .

This video was filmed in 2010. But after 10 years, China looks so much different.

be careful, there are a lot of fakes out there. A fake ceramic maker went public when he didn't get paid for his scam work. I love art. Keep up the beauty

many thanks for this great upload!

Wow, breathtaking, BEAUTIFUL, beautiful, beautiful, jawdroping...

Thanks for the beautiful porcelain video!

Good collection

Best content on KZfaq.

going up in value as i type this

I have one off these large Brithis /China Dishes of Blue design passed, down through my family. My one grandfather was captain during the tall ships. Once we even had a monkey from Africa at his house, as pet, later given to Copenhagen Zoo. I was a trained Porcelain paintres at Royal Copenhagen Porcelain. The history goes, that Kathrine the Great of Russia succeeded in stealing the porcelain secret from China. Through Royalty family there it was sold to Denmark , and Royal Copenhagen Porcelain was created. The first Porcelain design in Denmark was a unique Blue design. Later , came Rococo Design off Floral Blossoms. Which I painted, while there, as artist in my early youth. .The Royal Court past, wanted some unique Danish. Design of it's own, less Blue, and thus created was, The Flora Danica. Flowers ,in a strictly Botanical Danish fashion with extensive gold on edges in lace porcelain. What's interesting is today we compete on cyber developments, then, the big thing was porcelain, and yes Spices and Fragrences. There was actually Spice wars. How the taste , and needs changes. Interesting.🇩🇰🇺🇸🗽🦅🎆

Very Beautiful thanks 🌹💜🌹

Really enjoyed the video. Alison The China Repair Studio.❤

I like Chinese porcelain and ceramic products and not just theirs but also Japanese , Vietnamese , Korean, Italian, French etc. And the water fountain , the mini ones and the big ones, everything , especially the thing which are was made in siries, and valuable way you know opersad to the ketch which is usually like unprofessional , childish, without styles cheap things ?.

"under the hammer" is an unfortunate phrase where antique porcelain is concerned. Lol. "Under auctioneer's gavel"...? Lol!

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 th 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 of of the middle east, even Egyptians) , Indians, Japaneses, Koreans, all knew Chinese porcelain long before europe discovered it . and if it wasn't for the Italians, the Brits would have never found out about it . Dam,n 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 .

Great video and gorgeous porcelain!

A beautiful and very wonderful offer. I wish success and progress in your wonderful work. Health and safety to you. My thanks, appreciation and respect.

This was fascinating, thank you ⚪🔵⚪🔵⚪

The British had very little of Chinese porcelain - in comparison. - with Saxon Prince-Elector August the Strong, who collected a few thousand pieces. Under him Boettger found the secret of producing porcelain. Today the Saxon porcelain production is Meissen, still keeping patterns of the Chinese (dragon and onions). And in Dresden one can see in a museum 2 thousand pieces of Chinese and Japanese porcelain pieces, 10% of the whole collection.

My cat's bowl is a Chinese porcelain bowl. So there!

Amazing 🤗💝

Would love to find out about them

Belíssimas! !!!!

Great info

thanks for sharing

As always, the importance of the spanish trade is meticulously neglected. The first masive imports to Europe were made through the Philipines Galleon, from China to the Philipines, from there to the Viceroyalty of New Spain (México) an from there to Seville. Felipe II had a wonderful colection of porcelain in Madrid´s Alcázar, and they were usually portrayed in his paintings colection. This objects were usually given to his austrian nephews and cousins, and his better pieces were inherited by his daugther, Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, who installed them in many of her palaces in Netherlands when she was commanded as Sovereing Archduchess there. Thus was the way porcelain gained such a prestige all over Europe.

لدي قطعتان خزف صيني نادر ارجوا المساعدة للتقييم اكثر

Very good, so fantastic collections...

and today most homes dont even have formal dinning rooms in them anymore.

Very well researched! Thank you!

How lightly does the colonist countries said about East India Company or Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or to be short VOC. This VOC was a nightmare in many Asia countries especially in Indonesia where they took spices and riches and killed people as they pleased.

Beautiful

thanks

Mantap

中国的陶瓷真美！

I am amused that though this video is about porcelain, at 4:54 the illustration is of someone examining a glass flask of urine. Bluintly, this has nothing to do with porcelain.

I love modern Japanese porcelain but I couldn't afford them.

Ironic how far the Chinese are willing to go now (like complex heists at museums) to recover their porcelains when they destroyed a great chunk of what existed on their cultural revolution

Love this. I'm a collector I got a question... Where is factory "V" Christie's sold factory D"

See Lavan Galleries Masterpieces in Chinese Art on KZfaq

Your pronunciation of r is improving.

Intersting work , sockesh !

Oh wow!

Those Pirates...Portugal opened the sea doors for the world to explore. Viva Portugal!

Chinese mentality has not changed much ,smart ,hardworking ,untrusting and secretive , their key to success, perhaps we should learn something from them or perhaps is too late

how much does these porcelains really costs?

So delicate!

Is there any lead in the BLUE PAINT.

beautiful

ART IS FUN , KEEP IT FUN . THANKS.

VERY,, NICE PORECELAIN,, from malaysia,,,,,

Very good.

It's very beauty n elegant material in one of the art. Thanks to Sotheby's. I have 75 years old original projector of ORWO brand, made in Switzerland. Can Sotheby's suggest for sale or auction ?

I would prefer it if there weren’t so many presenter driven documentaries these days - “I’ve been interested since...”, “I’m on a mission to...”. I don’t care about you I just want to learn about the subject matter.

So extremely beautiful chinese ancient porcelain. 青瓷

British are so beautiful and inspiring

Lovely :)

Where can I take a small platter to have it priced

I have seen it in DRESDEN ZWINGER..

Good, thanks

I got the same jar same drawing

I have an old Chinese vase that I found in the Mediterranean. I am an amateur swimmer

Beautiful long time

Chinese is the oldest world exporter of goods since ancient time.

Beatiful

Beatiful the best gold

Nice!

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5:30 os reis disputavam já nessa época os despojos de saque. Eram receptadores.

wao que lindo ceramica

good