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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9752165, member: 10944"]I believe they may have even started that trend a couple decades previous to that.</p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting take on the practice is that it may have helped to preserve Chinese vases rather than to destroy many. The theory being that vases were more prone to accidental damage than lamps. Lamps often stayed in one place for many decades and never got moved. Vases got used and moved more and hence were more prone to being dropped, chipped, knocked into, and what not. A lamp shade could also protect the porcelain if it did fall or get knocked into. So while drilling definitely messed up a lot of vases it’s possible that some of those would have been lost to time if they hasn’t been lamped. Just a theory, not mine but it makes some sense. Lamping is often thought to have ruined the pieces but in an odd way maybe it saved them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 9752165, member: 10944"]I believe they may have even started that trend a couple decades previous to that. An interesting take on the practice is that it may have helped to preserve Chinese vases rather than to destroy many. The theory being that vases were more prone to accidental damage than lamps. Lamps often stayed in one place for many decades and never got moved. Vases got used and moved more and hence were more prone to being dropped, chipped, knocked into, and what not. A lamp shade could also protect the porcelain if it did fall or get knocked into. So while drilling definitely messed up a lot of vases it’s possible that some of those would have been lost to time if they hasn’t been lamped. Just a theory, not mine but it makes some sense. Lamping is often thought to have ruined the pieces but in an odd way maybe it saved them.[/QUOTE]
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