“Quilled Vase with Peonies” is made entirely out of porcelain, but fools the viewer into thinking it’s paper. Jakielski achieved this trick of the eye by looking to processes such as paper quilling and tape casting and applying them to porcelain. She uses ultra-thin tape cast porcelain sheets — cutting, twirling, rolling, and manipulating them into decorative designs in ways not thought to be possible. The designs are attached to one another with slip, carefully placed with tweezers onto sheets of foam, and held in place with pins using traditional paper-quilling techniques and tools. After they dry, Jakielski removes the pins and carefully slides the piece from the foam onto a kiln shelf. “Quilled Vase with Peonies” pays homage to historic ceramic vessels from places such as Sèvres, France, and Meissen, Germany, reimagined into an almost paper-thin historic silhouette using Jakielski’s tape casting and quilling techniques. Jakielski shares, “I feel a kinship with Sèvres and Meissen as well as other early-European porcelain factories in their quest for a seemingly impossible porcelain and pursuit of the exquisite object. I also pull inspiration from historic Japanese, Chinese, and Persian wares.” Sèvres porcelain in particular was famous for its distinctive blue glaze which became known as “Sèvres blue,’’inspiring Jakielski’s many blue shades in “Quilled Vase with Peonies.” Its decorative designs reflect the countless historical styles that existed, usually ornate, with Jakielski significantly adding to their complexity with her quilling technique. Her methods, time-consuming and meticulous, mirror the quest for the perfect, impossible object.