This installation draws imagery from the Kangxi Chinese blue and white porcelain from the Hudson River Museum’s historic home, Glenview, and additional Gilded Age collections. Fabulism, blended with a critical view of Gilded Age wealth and excess, presents a maximalist room enveloped in chaos. Design motifs, freed from porcelain cups and vases, surround an upturned parlor, mirroring the excess, greed, and corruption of the Gilded Age and the political instability of the early Qing Dynasty. Transitional, or Jingdezhen, porcelain was produced during the shift from the Ming to the Qing dynasty, a period marked by civil war and political turmoil. As a result, the traditional system of large-scale production for the imperial court collapsed, and leading officials in charge of ceramic production turned to private customers, including foreign trading companies. While both historical periods are praised for their marked aesthetics and production of beautiful, grand objects, they equally share a history of political strife and social upheaval.