We were on our way to Karlovoy Vary, in the Czech Republic, and we were making good time so we needed a tourist stop along the way. Near Hohenberg (a.d. Eger), still in Germany, we saw a sign to THE Porzellonikon. Well, it seemed like it should be "THE", because I'm not sure there are any others. The formal name is the Deutsches Porzellan Museum (The German Porcelain Museum, for our English-readers) .

It was just 10 in the morning and everything in Hohenberg was quiet, very quiet. The museum was even quieter, since we were the first guests of the day (perhaps the only guests of the day?). This allowed plenty of time to study this work done in porcelain tile and wonder just how something like this is done.

The museum also had several rooms, decorated with ordinary dishes of the era. The 1950's modern is now old enough to be back in style and the 1850's "kitchen" was a reminder of how simple life used to be and how important a little decoration might have been in a household so plain.