For over a thousand years, one small city in southeastern China supplied the world with its finest porcelain. Jingdezhen’s kilns produced the blue-and-white vases of the Ming dynasty, the “egg-shell” bowls so thin they were called “blown out of existence,” and the imperial china that decorated palaces from Beijing to Istanbul. Today, a new generation of potters is reviving ancient techniques while adapting them for modern homes. This is the story of the porcelain capital — and how to give a piece of it as a gift.
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