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Signs & Wonders, installation view2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
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Signs & Wonders, installation view2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
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Signs & Wonders, installation view2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders, installation view](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/Signs-Wonders_VA_Helene-Binet3_160929_102643.jpg)
Signs & Wonders, installation view2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders, installation view](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/Signs-Wonders_VA_Helene-Binet2_160929_102641.jpg)
Signs & Wonders, installation view2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/edmund_ceramics003_VA.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/edmund_ceramics006_VA.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/edmund_ceramics009_VA.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/web3.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/web4.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/web5.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/web7.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/web8.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/828.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/829.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/831.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/832.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/edmund_ceramics030.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/Signs-and-Wonders_VA_2009_pots.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels contained in a red aluminium shelf
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders (detail)](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/edmund_ceramics015_VA.jpg)
Signs & Wonders (detail)2009
425 porcelain vessels in white, celadon and grey glazes contained in red aluminium shelf.
40 × 3700 × 16 cm
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders maquette](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/Ceramics-0005.jpg)
Signs & Wonders maquette2009
120 thrown porcelain vessels in a red, powder-coated aluminium channel
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders maquette](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/Ceramics-0020.jpg)
Signs & Wonders maquette2009
120 thrown porcelain vessels in a red, powder-coated aluminium channel
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal
![Signs & Wonders maquette](https://www.edmunddewaal.com/files/making/signs-wonders/_mediumImage/Ceramics-0028.jpg)
Signs & Wonders maquette2009
120 thrown porcelain vessels in a red, powder-coated aluminium channel
Signs & Wonders
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Permanent installation, 2009
Sometimes if you look at something intently and look away there is an after-image left behind. A profile or a fragment of pattern can feel as if it is burning on your retina. The old Ceramics Galleries that stretched along the top floor of the V&A have gone. But there is an after-image.
This installation, commissioned in 2009 to celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries, was made from my memories of the old rooms where I spent many days of my childhood. A mass of porcelain held in space; 425 vessels have been placed on a red metal shelf that floats high up in the dome. It reflects on early Chinese celadons, eighteenth-century European porcelain and early twentieth-century modernism
- Edmund de Waal