Feature: American ceramist brings new vitality to ancient Chinese kiln

SHIJIAZHUANG, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Enchanted by the beauty of white Chinese porcelain, Marc Leuthold has spent the past two months creating contemporary artworks via both local clay and firing methods in Quyang, a county in north China's Hebei Province with over a thousand years of ceramics-making history.

Leuthold, an elected lifetime member of the International Academy of Ceramics and a retired professor from t