Watch our new 15 minute film as Japanese potter Takeshi Yasuda makes one of his signature celadon glazed, porcelain vases. ‘Not many potters would realise what I’m doing,’ he says as he constructs his vase in 3 parts, thrown upside down. Filmed in his studio, located in the porcelain capital of the world Jingdezhen, China, this film of Yasuda goes a little way to revealing why he is one of the most inventive potters working today.
Made in China: The Extraordinary Story of Jingdezhen
It is now a decade since the Goldmark film crew first visited Jingdezhen, China’s ‘Porcelain Capital’, to film the British-Japanese potter Takeshi Yasuda at work. He has had studios in the city for twenty years; this year he will be 80. But in Jingdezhen, as our film crew found out, words like past and present, … Read more
