Soy Sauce Container - Lily Bird Multicolour - A Di Alessi

Soy sauce container in fine bone china. Hand-decorated.
The close contact with the National Palace Museum of Taiwan’s artistic collections offered by the 'Chin Family' project has allowed Stefano Giovannoni’s imagination to run wild, pushing him to measure himself against, and apply his contemporary and very personal interpretation to, the millennia-old tradition of Chinese applied arts. The result is a family of characters, flowers and fruits, each of which interprets a domestic functional role, echoing the grace of seventeenth-century ceramic objects while at the same time openly declaring their modernness.