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Another excellent youtube find.
[http://youtube.com/watch?v=742wDih0ySI]

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There are some good youtube posting on porcelain and ceramics, starting out with this interesting eight minute long academic video overview of the history of Asian ceramics put out by the “Minneapolis Institute of Arts.“
“Ceramic production in Asia dates back many thousands of years. The Chinese have always been regarded as the undisputed masters of […]

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Here is an excerpt from an interesting article I found on yahoo about Hong Kong’s Hollywood road:
“On Hollywood Road, Hong Kong’s famed strip of art and antique outlets, the shopfronts provide a veritable tour of Chinese and Asian history, selling everything from Tibetan temple carpets and centuries-old Chinese wedding cabinets to giant Cambodian and Burmese […]

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This is yet another interesting youtube find, and this particular one deals with the making of Tang dynasty style tri-colored glazed pottery figurines. Its actually quite good - showing you the entire process from rolling out the initial clay to the sculpting of the figurine.

Here is a snippet from their youtube posting:
Tang Tri-color ware was […]

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We don’t normally deal in extremely high-end pieces but nevertheless this video I stumpled upon on youtube is quite interesting if you want to see real Chinese porcelains. It seems this was taken at Southerbys

If the embedded version does not work, then try this direct link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hK34uG_yA

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