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The EssayDe Waal's Itinerant PotsEpisodes

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  1. Magdalene Odundo

    5/5In a final essay on the theme of migration, Edmund considers the work of Magdalene Odundo.

  2. The Fonthill Vase

    4/5On the theme of migration, Edmund considers the lifelong journeys of a world-famous pot.

  3. The Schindler House

    3/5On the theme of migration, a story of the freedom offered by 20th-century California.

  4. Wedgwood

    2/5Second on the theme of migration. Pots are vessels holding ideas that are carried abroad.

  5. Hans Coper

    1/5Migration is the theme of Edmund de Waal's series. How ideas and artefacts travel in time.