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Title: White Asian Pierced Porcelain
Post by: antiqgal on February 06, 2007, 08:11:28 AM

Hello :)

I have several pierced ceramic or porcelain pieces which I'm constantly asked to sell. I'd love to find more for clients, but my problem is in searching.

Is anyone familiar with that oriental style of white pierced lamps that were so popular in the mid 20thc? A pattern of holes, usually geometric shapes, cut out to form a lacy pattern were incised over the body of large vessels- vases, and some garden stools. I am looking for what looks like tin glazed, al white, unpainted works.

Is there a name for this style? Some of these lamps lit up both at the upper bulb, and inside the lower base. I have done innumerable searches for this type of work (creamware AND pierced, porcelain cutwork, etc) and yet never seen the style given any name repeatedly. Most of this must have been made as lamps, for other than the pierced sides of some censers, there would be no reason to make a large vessel full of holes that for use as a decorative object..

If anyone knows of a specific name for this style of work, or the names of any manufacturers- past or present, it would be appreciated!

Title: Re: White Asian Pierced Porcelain
Post by: Tim on February 08, 2007, 11:09:55 AM

Photos would really help to determine what you have. Sounds very nice.
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best.........Tim 8)

Title: Re: White Asian Pierced Porcelain
Post by: dontbe on February 08, 2007, 01:19:17 PM

yes, pictures are worth a thousand words.

Title: Re: White Asian Pierced Porcelain
Post by: antiqgal on February 13, 2007, 08:44:21 AM

Here are a couple in the same style. These seem to disappear very quickly online, and go pretty high.

I'm interested in finding out where this style of work came from in history. I have researched some work in white clays, and think that there must be an eastern style of work that spawned the commercial popularity that this kind of work had in the mid 20thc in the west, but have yet to find the name of that work.

I did find these translations for "openwork" here:
http://www.answers.com/openwork
which has made it easier to search for images in other languages.

Also any idea of manufacturers which created this type of lamp would help- I guess that would be 1940s and 50s....

thanks for reading this post :)