The main scene on the vase depicts a man seated at a tea table with a display of porcelain on a buffet. The inscription around the scene reads: 'China tuas ultra ignotas ne dixeris Artes/En Eûropaeô Vinceris ingeniô....Viennae' (China, you will not have called your arts unknown any longer; In Europe, you will triumph though the ingenium of Vienna). The ceramic manufactory established in Vienna by Claudius du Paquier (died 1751) was the second in Europe to produce hard-paste porcelain. This object claims the superiority of the Vienna manufacturer, whose 'ingenium' allowed to pierce the secrets of Chinese porcelain-making.