Analysis: Here's how one of the rarest pieces of Chinese porcelain in the world ended up in the National Museum of Ireland It may come as a surprise to many readers that one of the world's rarest ...

This Is Art Club! is the show that celebrates and creates art. In the first episode the gang looked at clay as the base material and you can watch a brief history above and find out about the ...

THE last two months have seen some astonishing bidding in auctions of Chinese treasures. Record after record has fallen away as newly wealthy collectors from mainland China have piled into salerooms ...

1. The Fonthill Vase at the National Museum of Ireland is an international treasure from what country? 2. What is a conundrum? 3. Who wrote the play Twelfth Night? 1. The Fonthill Vase at the National ...

The legacy of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in Ireland; the history of the earliest piece of documented Chinese porcelain in Europe, the Fonthill Vase, and the perennially fresh furniture designs of ...

Edmund connects the rising and falling fortunes of a very well-travelled piece of porcelain to those of his own family. A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and ...