How a seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain dish inspired a contemporary reinterpretation of love, longing and the search for a home. Edward Luper, The Millennial's Dream, 2026 The dish I would have stolen A couple of weeks after I started working at Bonhams as a junior specialist, the Chinese Art team went on a group visit to Dorset to see the Butler collection of seventeenth-century Chinese porcelain. I had only just graduated, having spent years studying the life and work

Designed by Edward Luper, 'The Pirates Treasure', blue and white porcelain brushpot, 2026 Sometimes, an encounter with an old object can lead somewhere quite unexpected. My LEGO pirate brushpot began with a business trip to Stockholm, a childhood memory, and one of my favourite pieces of Japanese porcelain. An unexpected discovery in Stockholm During a business trip to Stockholm, I visited the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. The museum was closed to the public at the time,

When people think of the colours of ukiyo-e, Prussian blue is probably the first that comes to mind. Hokusai's Great Wave has made that blue almost synonymous with the visual language of nineteenth-century Japanese prints. But for me, the colour that feels most distinctly Edo is not blue. It is red... specifically the warm, deep red associated with safflower, or beni. I have always been drawn to the reds of Edo period prints. They have a warmth and depth that I find very diff