Book Competition

This week’s competition prize is The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts, by Edmund de Waal (Chatto & Windus, £20). Click here for your chance to win.

The White Road is acclaimed author and artist Edmund de Waal’s intimate journey in search of porcelain, a substance he has been obsessed with for most of his life. It is a journey across continents that begins in Jingdezhen, China and embraces Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the English south-west. For centuries, porcelain has transfixed emperors and alchemists, philosophers, craftsmen and collectors, all eager to decode the secret of ‘white gold’. De Waal’s pilgrimage of sorts leads him to a more profound understanding of the material he has worked with for decades, and chronicles the alchemy, art, wealth, craft and purity of porcelain. It is the unbroken story of a global obsession.

For your chance to win simply answer the following question and submit your details here before midday on 23 October 2015.

Which town is known as the ‘porcelain capital’ of China?

This competition closes at midday on 23 October 2015.

For our last competition prize we offered Rodin, by Raphael Masson and Véronique Mattiussi (Musée Rodin and Flammarion, £19.95).

In which year did the Musée Rodin open at the Hôtel Biron in Paris, the artist’s former home?

Answer: 1919

Congratulations to the winner, Samantha Sugden.