Featured Image: Octagonal Waste Bowl, from the Proposed Japanese Palace of Augustus the Strong; 1725-30; Manufactured by Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Meissen, Germany); Hard-paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, 1923-22-55; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution
