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Samuel Colt's porcelain transparencies.(lithophanes)
The creation of realistic pictures by means of light passing through translucent panes of porcelain must have appealed to Samuel Colt, who purchased large quantities of what are called lithophanes. They depict fables, pastoral scenes, vedute (landscape or town views), and other subjects. He also commissioned a portrait to be made in the same material (Fig. 1).
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The process invented and patented by Baron Paul Charles de Bourgoing (1791-1864) in 1827 to produce lithophanes was deceptively simple. (1) A modeler duplicated the image to be copied on a flat ...
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