Ceramic’s Hidden Secrets: One Of The Oldest Forms Of Art In Human Record

is that anthony bourdain s voice

It’s time we stopped ‘gauging’ societies on arbitrary scales, which inevitably lead to a claim of cultural superiority, and start thinking of cultures as constellations rather than continuums

That was a very interesting summary of the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Its always so fascinating to hear the knowledge and pasio of the curators, archeologists and experts. Two annoyances - I'm not sure how much voice work the narrator Shawn Devlin does - but his voice was quite jarring; as well - the background music - annoying and constant.

I would love to see this museum in person someday...but if that doesn’t come to pass this certainly is the next best thing. I learned so much. Thank you for sharing such an informative and interesting video.✨

These museum Curators handing "very rare' pieces of pottery without gloves points towards how curators always elevate themselves above all of us normals. "We curators touch you serfs don't touch".

You don't seem to have Terracotta collections in the museum.

Thank you. This is marvellous. More, please

Goodness, this is repetitive and slow! I kept waiting for more substance

All of the mesoamerican objects in this museum come from looting and pillaging archeological sites, museums muts be decolonized.

What if an earthquake hits the museum? All the displays breaking🤔 The Battle of Britain sculpture is amazing😊

How did Canada get Mayan pieces? Those pieces should be in their own countries.

Many of the Latin American pieces look very humorous to me. I think those ancient peoples must have had great senses of humor. I imagine they must have cracked themselves up making some of those pieces.

Thank heavens pre-columbian or any other pottery can't be melted and turned into something else, like gold could, or re-cut and polished to be reused to adorn jewelry like precious stones could be. Otherwise we'd never have seen a single piece of it in its original form nowadays. What a shame the native American civilisations didn't use clay to adorn themselves and create holy artifacts instead of gold.

Development of luxurious pottery (among other luxury goods) doesn't prove society's sophistication. It proves society's stratification, division, development of rich, privileged and idle minority in power of the vast majority of the society which it is exploiting and violently subjugating in order for it to cater to the whims of the former, while not allowing it to participate in any of the sophistication and luxury mentioned above.

Wtf Murph

Murph why

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Ok then.

The way the narrator said "Islam" . . . and the multiple times they zoomed in on the black face comedic puppet... and the lady talking mindlessly about "im not exactly sure what they were used for" ..

Great museum. And that whistling piece was fascinating. :) The Colima repro I have, I only wish to be real. Another tip for the hollow ones would be residue of insects inside which could indicate age.

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Thank you for amazing info. & museum.
It's sad that beautiful Rococo & Viennese pieces along with Chinese creations have to suffer being anywhere near ugly 20th century so-called 'modern artist' kindergarten-level messes: late comer are oft such disappointments!

Starting with making "mud pies" as a kid, clay has fascinated me into my senior years. Ceramics was my concentration in university, and with that came a much broader appreciation of the many expressive forms obtained by the medium of clay. The Mayan tamale plate is absolutely stunning!!

It's not trumploy... it's "trompe l'oeil" which directly translates from French to fool the eye.

I lived next door to the Gardiner 10 years ago and had wandered through a few times but didn't have this level of understanding - guess it's time for another visit. So cool to see an in depth look into the collection, thank you!

Very interesting

The way archeologist use to date ceramic is wrong many toltec copies are fake and and specialist dont make any différence fakesome in the metropolitan museum in the us .... i know the guy who make them

Plastic is a very poor analogy for the secretive invention and production of porcelain. Nobody tried to keep the manufacture of plastic a secret. They just patented their particular method. The invention of the atomic bomb is a much better analogy.

Obvious that those scenes were of the New World.

. On seeing this collection I hear in my ears a phrase Hændel included in his Messiah: "Marvellous! Wonderful!"... a great Collection and a great video. And it is evident that the curators love intensely the material they are describing and explaining.  
Everything is beautiful.
I collect porcelain and I have also worked with clay for some time.

The piece shown from minute 1957 is called, in Spanish "huaco silbador" . How do you say "huaco" in English?

this narrator has a voice like John Candy!

Paul Day's stuff is phenomenal!

interesting but nothing about African clay .

Very well done and use of ceramic pieces chosen was great!

We usually use fire to melt materials but we put clay in fire to strengthen it.

When you live in the mountains or forests whistling is vary helpfull

I find hilarious that the archaeologists didn’t believe the mayas were telling the truth at first, not until they actually found a vessel with chocolate remains 😂

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Absolutely wonderful!

Interesting that the same people are creating the same type of wares yet are called reproductions or fakers of THEIR pieces?..... it belongs to those who created it not those who put them behind glass, calling reproductions or fakes of the same people making their ancestors wares is irresponsible, maybe old and newer is more truthful

Hi ma'am I have 5 heads here and 1 jar can you explain to me what is this?

Stolen art from Guatemala. Sad .

The music is terrible!