Palissy Plate
Handmade in Bolton - S1 - E3
Ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh is set the task of making a Renaissance animal plate of the type invented by the great French potter Bernard Palissy.
Handmade in Bolton: Season 1 - 4 Episode s
1x1 - Visigothic Brooch
October 7, 2019
Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez sets Shaun Greenhalgh, once a prolific forger, the challenge of making a jewelled eagle brooch of the kind worn by Visigoth chieftains in the Dark Ages.
1x2 - Nottingham Alabaster
October 9, 2019
Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the challenge of making an alabaster carving of the kind mass-produced in Catholic England in the centuries before the Reformation.
1x3 - Palissy Plate
October 14, 2019
Ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh is set the task of making a Renaissance animal plate of the type invented by the great French potter Bernard Palissy.
1x4 - Rock Crystal Bottle
October 13, 2019
Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the almost impossible task of carving an Islamic bottle out of rock crystal in the style of the 10th-century Egyptian Fatimids.