Here I am standing in a ridiculously ostentatious room in Charlottenburg Palace, one filled with cups, saucers, plates, and numerous other vessels? Displaying this stuff was a status symbol for Prussian royalty. Hordes of craftsmen built palace wings dedicated solely to ceramics. Maybe if the Prussians spent less time goofing with their tableware, they wouldn’t have been routed by Napoleon?

This room also reminded me of that old Carlin bit on stuff.