The Guardian Article
MacCarthy, Fiona, "Cabinets of Curiosity", The Guardian. 30th June 2007.
"Earlier this summer a new scene unfolded in the heavily baroque interior at Chatsworth. Edmund de Waal's ceramic installation A Sounding Line winds down the 160ft corridor outside the chapel. It consists of 66 jars, some open, some lidded, some funnelled at the top. The glazes are pale, either celadon or white. They are ranged around the corbels, chimney pieces and window ledges, and their purity, in a way, subverts the opulence of Chatsworth, a place of such decorative plenty. This is the way of potting that preoccupies de Waal at present. He works in multiples, in cycles, not captured in a showcase but progressing through a space..."
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