Giants and dwarfs, angels and demons, mermaids, unicorns, sphinxes, phoenixes or dragons - all peoples and cultures tell wondrous stories of those fantastic creatures. Whether in human or animal form, ghostly creatures and chimeras, their appearance is shaped purely by our imagination. Mythical creatures are an integral part of our mythologies, legends and fairy tales. Even if their existence is not proven, they still exert a strong attraction on us, or precisely because of this. They allow us to travel to unknown worlds, to fantasy worlds, to experience magic and to give free rein to our imagination. Without the latter, the ability to tell stories and to believe in them, mythical creatures would be unthinkable. All the great questions of life are told and described pictorially by means of them. Good and evil, the question of fate, justice, the world of the ancestors, everything that is beyond our supposed control.


Our porcelain painters and modellers also repeatedly make use of these great stories that inspire with their symbolic power to masterful creations, with decorations such as the world-famous "Ming Dragon", the decorative recreation "Phoenix" and the imposing sculpture of a phoenix rising from the ashes by our sculptor Max Hagstotz for the Limited Masterpieces Collection.