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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph PROLOGUE: Jingdezhen – London – Venice – Dublin – Jingdezhen PART ONE: Jingdezhen

One: on shards Two: sorry Three: Mount Kao-ling Four: making and decorating and glazing and firing Five: how to make big pots Six: obligations Seven: Factory #72 Eight: Counterfeit. Forgery. Sham. Nine: ten thousand things Ten: The Monk’s Cap Ewer Eleven: I read everything. I understand. Continue. Twelve: setting out Thirteen: Men in black Fourteen: the emperor’s Tea Set

PART TWO: Versailles – Dresden

Fifteen: the latest news from China Sixteen: the porcelain pavilion Seventeen: cream-coloured, provincial and opaque Eighteen: optiks Nineteen: the first mode of formation Twenty: gifts and promises and titles Twenty-One: the shuffle of things Twenty-Two: a path, a vocation Twenty-Three: extraordinarily curious Twenty-Four: there is no gold Twenty-Five: ‘double, or even triple amount of effort’ Twenty-Six: promises, promises Twenty-Seven: half translucent and milk white, like a narcissus Twenty-Eight: the invention of Saxon porcelain Twenty-Nine: porcelain rooms, porcelain cities Thirty: 1719

PART THREE: Plymouth

Thirty-One: The Birth of English Porcelain Thirty-Two: Three Scruples make a Dram Thirty-Three: A Quaker! A Quaker! A Quirl! Thirty-Four: a greater rain Thirty-Five: covering the ground Thirty-Six: shillings, pebbles or buttons Thirty-Seven: Letters Edifying and Curious Thirty-Eight: readily stained in use Thirty-Nine: china earth Forty: a shard, which, by leave, he sometime broke Forty-One: silences Forty-Two: Tregonning Hill Forty-Three: brighter in white objects Forty-Four: thoughts of whiteness

PART FOUR: Ayoree Hill – Etruria

Forty-Five: an Idea of perfect Porcellain Forty-Six: Ayoree Mountain Forty-Seven: C.F. Forty-Eight: on Englishness Forty-Nine: endings, beginnings Fifty: a cunning specification Fifty-One: Gray’s Elegy Fifty-Two: a journey into Cornwall Fifty-Three: thoughts concerning emigration Fifty-Four: a road trip Fifty-Five: 1790

PART FIVE: London – Jingdezhen – Dachau – Dresden – Jingdezhen

Fifty-Six: Signs & Wonders Fifty-Seven: 1919 Fifty-Eight: red labour Fifty-Nine: Bright Earth, Fired Earth Sixty: what whiteness, what candour Sixty-One: Allach Sixty-Two: false sail Sixty-Three: correct in orientation Sixty-Four: another witness Sixty-Five: The Boehm Porcelain Co. of Trenton, New Jersey

CODA: London – New York – London

Sixty-Six: breathturn

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