"Porcelain Lithophane Lamp Canadian Landscape Decor"
Lithophany lamp in porcelain biscuit, fine hollow-molded porcelain biscuit plate whose translucency allows, with lighting at the back, to reveal the decor, here 2 different decorations, mountain landscape The origin of the lithophany is the manufacture royal of Prussia but it was in Limoges that Paul de Bourgoing invented lithophane in 1828, a traditional technique of engraving on a fine unglazed porcelain biscuit. In 1826, creation of a company for the lithophany process and filed a patent 1 year later which detailed 3 lithophanies techniques, for 15 years he was the only one able to create lithophanies