One of the projects that sticks in Gerald Mak's mind from his ceramics and glass MA at the Royal College of Art, from which he graduated in 2020, was having to choose a piece from the V&A's collection to reinterpret in a work of his own. Gerald picked a porcelain lemon basket, made around 1737 by Meissen, the finest porcelain factory in Europe and the first to rival the quality of the porcelain made in Asia.
Lozenge-shaped in white, the basket is modelled in elaborate Chinoiserie style, with an outstretched eagle forming a handle at
