Rita Konig's Slice of Humanity From V&A's Archive

追加: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Ceramics and porcelain [music] and China is really a passion of mine.

[00:00:13]Hi, I'm Rita Konig and I'm here at the V&A East Storehouse. Something that Wedgwood [music] did so beautifully was the drab color they used. The blue is so strong next to it and the leaves and the flowers and the combination of something [music] that's so delicate with a color that we sort of associate with burlapp and >> [music] >> working fabric. I love that combination.

[00:00:35]Porcelain at that time was so expensive.

[00:00:37]It's called white gold. You know, this is a fruit dish which of course we don't think now how precious fruit was. We're much more throw away now.

[00:00:46]Things made by hand are so individual and they show such a beautiful craft. No two are the same. I mean, once this is done by machine, it doesn't have the same depth.

[00:00:57]The things made by hand are very precious. It's just the time they take and >> [music] >> the humanity that's gone into them.

[00:01:06]There's a life cycle and not a churning out. The person that made this plate, they probably didn't imagine that it was going to end up [music] in a museum.