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Artistic Victorian Night Lights:
These Night Lights are the perfect gift,
further enhanced with the addition of color (using a proprietary technique
developed in 1986); reasonably
priced & nicely gift boxed, including history and care literature. We have over
100 designs available as night lights, in a variety of themes.
Some appear below. The Night Stands come complete with a 6 foot cord and a 25
watt bulb. Available Finishes are Antique Brass or Enameled White.
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.
However, it was the Europeans that evolved the concept from simple floral
pictures into complex, intricately detailed scenes. A wide variety of images
appeared on lithophanes. The subject matter included quaint and delightful
replicas of rural scenes and children at play, reproductions of famous portraits
and popular paintings.
The craftsmen at the
Porcelain Garden are dedicated to preserving and, indeed, furthering this
extraordinary art form. All of their lithophanes are
produced here in their own studios, using many of the
same methods developed by the original artists many generations ago.
It took quite a few years to develop and hone
these skills, to a point that these
lithophanes are of a quality and detail to rival the
finest ever made. And we are very proud of that!
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