Every lady's home in Australia used to have a little china cabinet. Filled with precious Stuart crystal sherry glasses and shiny little porcelain ornaments of cats and flowers. Many of them probably had one of these shiny lustre ware fishes. The items in these cabinets were probably never used but they had pride of place in the living room. As time passed fashions changed and once coveted heirlooms that were saved so carefully set aside for daughters fell out of favour.
In this little vignette a lustre ware fish, a ladies fancy glove and a mercury Christmas bauble, all relics of a bygone time, are immortalised against a surreal backdrop of mirrors and pink plastic.