Peacocks are native to India. When Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza married King Charles II of England in 1662, her dowry brought the port of Bombay to England. With that entrée, Great Britain expanded her empire to India, and the peacock’s sumptuous tail came to be used in regal decorative imagery in 18th-century English wares. We have taken that imagery and have given it a modern twist in our art glass Feathers Charger

1662年，英格兰国王查理二世迎娶了葡萄牙布拉干萨王朝的凯瑟琳公主，公主的嫁妆之一便是将孟买港转属英国。经由这一序曲，大不列颠帝国正式将它的统治扩张到了印度。在印度历史上，摩揭陀国又被称为孔雀王朝，孔雀贵为国鸟，因而后世又将印度称为“孔雀之乡”。孔雀美艳华丽，在18世纪的英国王室，诸多器皿都以它为灵感设计出奢华的装饰细节。GLOBAL VIEWS 的这款羽毛花纹装饰盘由葡萄牙工匠打造，充分继承古典之美的前提的同时融入现代元素，完美演绎“潮流与传统的巧妙相遇”。