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The article focuses on the reformulation of Bone China due to the unavailability of certain materials, detailing the experimentation process with local substitutes to maintain translucency and whiteness. Topics include the challenges faced in finding consistent materials, the criteria for testing local alternatives and the step-by-step process of reformulating the Bone China recipe.

The article talks about Antje Scharfe's vessels in the niche, in which whatever the artist can feel with whatever matter can become a vessel. The vessels used to pour something in or to pour something out of can be turned towards objects for aesthetic use, the enjoyment and the self-enjoyment of sense and nonsense. Scharfe has freed herself from a convention that what a vessel is supposed to be is allowed to be. The Ritual Vessels are almost surfaces with shapes subjected to ritual purposes. The still-life vessels are a three-dimensional expansion including panes of bone china that are embedded in blocks of wax reminiscent of their captions such as kitchen table and eternal shapes.