In her "Secret Garden", designer Lena Hensel affords us a glimpse of a fantasy world laden with symbolic content in which she populates her garden with fanciful creatures of the kind painted by the young Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck (1714-1754) in a scheme nevertheless intended for modern eyes. The indigo-blue colouring of the painted detail creates a harmonious sense of unity in which animals and tendrils are accorded equal importance.The porcelain vase's great size necessitated considerable feats of craftsmanship both by its painters and by all operatives in the Modelling Unit. Standing three feet high, it is at the top end of what Manufactory staff can handle in the enamel kiln.