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La porcelaine de Jingdezhen
French-English edition
C'est le premier livre à présenter une description illustrée très complète des savoir-faire et techniques traditionnels, spécifiques à Jingdezhen. Non seulement il révèle la magie des gestes et des métiers artisanaux servant à fabriquer la porcelaine dans son berceau millénaire chinois, mais cette étude de terrain apporte une documentation historique de grande valeur, s'adressant autant aux potiers pratiquant la porcelaine qu'aux nombreux amateurs curieux de céramique en particulier extrême-orientale.
This is the first book which presents a full and illustrated description of traditional skills and techniques of porcelain in Jingdezhen. It reveals not only the magical porcelain making skills in the thousand year-old ancient city, but also serves as a set of significant historic documentation, which is as valuable as that of a field survey and of a great interest for practicing potters and ceramics and specially porcelain amateurs.
C'est le premier livre à présenter une description illustrée très complète des savoir-faire et techniques traditionnels, spécifiques à Jingdezhen. Non seulement il révèle la magie des gestes et des métiers artisanaux servant à fabriquer la porcelaine dans son berceau millénaire chinois, mais cette étude de terrain apporte une documentation historique de grande valeur, s'adressant autant aux potiers pratiquant la porcelaine qu'aux nombreux amateurs curieux de céramique en particulier extrême-orientale.
This is the first book which presents a full and illustrated description of traditional skills and techniques of porcelain in Jingdezhen. It reveals not only the magical porcelain making skills in the thousand year-old ancient city, but also serves as a set of significant historic documentation, which is as valuable as that of a field survey and of a great interest for practicing potters and ceramics and specially porcelain amateurs.
288 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2005
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April 10, 2020
This is at the same time a very boring and a very interesting book.
Boring because the texts are complicated and bombastic and also give the impression that the author thinks that Jingdezhen porcelain is superior to all the rest. What I missed is the history.
The french/english translation is not always clear. I read mostly in english but sometimes had to compare with the french text to know what was meant.
The interesting part are the many many photographs!!! They give a good insight in the traditional production of the porcelain ánd every step of it. This makes the book most of all one to look in, in stead to reading it (which I did nevertheless).
All by all I am happy to have the book, although I doubted to buy it because of the price.
Boring because the texts are complicated and bombastic and also give the impression that the author thinks that Jingdezhen porcelain is superior to all the rest. What I missed is the history.
The french/english translation is not always clear. I read mostly in english but sometimes had to compare with the french text to know what was meant.
The interesting part are the many many photographs!!! They give a good insight in the traditional production of the porcelain ánd every step of it. This makes the book most of all one to look in, in stead to reading it (which I did nevertheless).
All by all I am happy to have the book, although I doubted to buy it because of the price.
August 2, 2025
A booklet about some of the ancient practices in Jingdezhen, the city renowned around the world for its exceptional porcelain quality and variety (producing pottery for the emperor for thousands of years). Plenty of beautiful and detailed pictures, which depict very accurately the practices I saw in Jingdezhen just last month! Reading this book is pleasant and quick. Some of the explanations are very simple and leave some space to the imagination (or to the curiosity). Others are painstakingly detailed (the author is an artist himself and takes some pride in explaining the paintin techniques in detail).
I found this book interesting from the historical perspective, and I wish more publications cover the Chinese porcelain world in general and Jingdezhen in particular (not much is published in a non-chinese language).
I found this book interesting from the historical perspective, and I wish more publications cover the Chinese porcelain world in general and Jingdezhen in particular (not much is published in a non-chinese language).
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