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Perhaps one of the most unusual and interesting
art forms to emerge from the early 19th century is the Lithophane.
Generally credited as being the invention of Baron Paul de Bourguignon,
of Rubelles, France, in 1827, the earliest forms of lithophanes
were actually produced in China many years before other countries
produced them. Chinese potters employed the process to trace
floral designs in the delicate walls of eggshell thin porcelain
vases
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However, it was the Europeans that evolved the
concept from simple floral pictures into complex, intricately
detailed scenes. A wide variety of images began to appear on
lithophanes. The subject matter included quaint and delightful
replicas of rural scenes and children at play, reproductions
of famous portraits and popular paintings, dramatic religious
scenes, hunting images, and scenic panoramas.
The Porcelain Garden is now known for producing the finest & most
intricately detailed Lithophanes in the United States. Using
many of the same methods developed by the original artists, with
the exception of electric kilns, and mixers to blend the porcelain
formula, the entire process of individually casting, finishing,
drying, firing, and inspecting each piece, is still done today
the same way it was done then. |