Patent ID: 7661851

Claim:
A decorative lamp comprising a source of light adapted to be turned on or turned off and a single lamp shade surrounding the source of light, with the lamp shade composed of a porcelain body having a material composition which is either translucent or semi-opaque such that white light is able to pass from the source of light uniformily through the porcelain body when the source of light is turned on and having a plurality of decorative elements each in a defined shape specially distributed on the interior surface of the shade at selected locations for diffusing the passage of light through only the decorative elements without affecting the passage of light in all other areas of the porcelain body with each of decorative elements being composed of a material having an opaqueness greater than the opaqueness of the porcelain shade such that the decorative element(s) will be visible to the naked eye from a location external of the lamp when the source of light is turned on but will not be visible to the naked eye when the source of light is turned off.