Hold to Light! Very Finely Pinpricked Leaf with Face on Yellow Paper, Earlier 19th Century Japanese export porcelain arched blade

arched blade

period paper print

the only flaws seem to be the irregularities in the glaze that are original to the piece

I really love the face on the cat holding her fan

(Perhaps appreciation for perpetually mending his socks

Hold to Light! Very Finely Pinpricked Leaf with Face on Yellow Paper, Earlier 19th Century Japanese export porcelain arched bladeI love this for feeling like a magical little secret, and that the paper should be sun yellow is just right. Its survival feels pretty miraculous too easy to miss that this is anything more than a plain slip of paper. My efforts to photograph the very finely pinpricked design fell a bit short, but details give a sense. It looks to me that there is a figure nestled into the face of this leaf, with face in 3 4 profile, perhaps an acorn hat on his head!