Etched in pewter, a prancing horse in the elegant ink wash style adds vim and vigour to the calligraphic phrase, which already translates as ‘success’. The intersections of the plaque’s criss-cross style frame feature floral roundels in pewter.

About the collection
The exoticism and lofty symbolism of oriental style, legacy of a millennia-old continuous civilisation, provides an opulent counterpoint to the restraint of contemporary aesthetics.