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Fragile Stories
Friday 2 Apr 2010 - Sunday 13 Jun 2010
State Floor 12.00pm - 4.00pm, Below Stairs 10.30am - 4.00pm
In the State Rooms and Below Stairs
This introduction to the richness of the ceramics collections at Harewood will showcase beautiful pieces drawn from different countries around the world: striking blue, red and gold Japanese Imari wares; creamy celadon-glazed porcelain from China; the explosive colour and shapes of the Sevres factory in France; the bejeweled colours of early Meissen porcelain; and the stunning hand-painted table wares from English factories such as Coalport. The exhibition will reveal the amazing stories behind the creation of this fabulous collection, created over the centuries by passionate collectors and connoisseurs such as Edward, the first Viscount Lascelles.
These seemingly fragile objects sometimes came half way cross the world in the 18th Century and inspired the race among the European factories to produce genuine porcelain; this exhibition uncovers these and other hidden stories behind the collection.
Fragile Stories is part of the New Worlds project.
New Worlds is part of the imove programme, primarily funded by the Legacy Trust UK.
Entrance to this event is included with a day ticket
Free to Harewood Cardholders
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Harewood House Trust, Harewood House,
Harewood, Leeds,
LS17 9LG
Tel: +44 (0)113 218 1010
info@harewood.org
Harewood is an independent charitable educational trust set up to maintain
and develop Harewood, its collections and grounds, for the public benefit.
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