A handbook to the practice of pottery painting |
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60 REGENT STREET artist BARBE biscuit bistre Black Noir Blanc fixe body brush Capucine Carmin tendre ceramic art china painter Chrome Green clair clay cobalt COLOURS For Painting Crimson dabbler Dark decoration Deep Duck Quill earthenware ENAMEL COLOURS enamel painting faience fat oil firing flux French glass muller glass slab glaze on Porcelain Gold Violet d'or grinding Grisaille HAIR heat impervious inches diameter Indian ink Indigo Ivory kiln LACROIX'S COLOURS LECHERTIER lustre majolica manganese medium metallic mixed muffle oil of turpentine Orange outline Outremer over-glaze oxides Painting on China palette palette knife perfectly piece Pigeon Quill pigment Pink PLAQUES plate Porcelain or Earthenware POTTERY PAINTING Purple Pourpre Quill Red Rouge Sable Silver Yellow smooth spirit stoneware surface Swan Quill tendre tile tones Transparent TUBE s. d. Turquoise under-glaze vases Vert chrôme Violet of Gold ware wash of colour water-colour Yellow Jaune دو وو
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Page 50 - Coins rust with time, statues of marble and bronze crumble or are corroded, inscriptions are obliterated, stone walls fall to the earth, and the pyramids themselves are slowly disappearing ; every monument that mankind have thought most lasting yields to time except the work of the potter. The most frail of man's productions is yet the most permanent. The glorious tints on the Majolica ware are still as bright as when they were drawn from the kiln, while the pictures of Raphael and Leonardo, painted...
Page 49 - ... not altogether despicable persons — are possessed of an enthusiastic liking for these things. The truth is, that the causes of the prevailing love for old china lie both deep and wide. To the antiquary, to the student of past history, there is this attraction in the ceramic art, that its productions more perfectly adapt themselves to the fashion of thought, to the fancies and ideas of each successive generation of men, than those of any other human industry.
Page 3 - THE singular interest that has been excited in late years in the subject of Pottery is at this time bearing remarkable fruit in the shape of a widespread effort to produce forms, and surface decoration on forms, that shall rival those done in such old times as are regarded as being peculiarly rich in artistic light and insight. The rivals...
Page 49 - It is no very easy thing to make intelligible to those who have no love for pottery, who take no delight in curious and beautiful pieces of china and earthenware, how it is that very many of their fellow mortals—not altogether despicable persons—are possessed of an enthusiastic liking for these things.
Page 3 - ... of their parts, both in body and glaze. But this is not everything ; and it is well known and seen that the ancient works, and those of the Renaissance, excel our own in their taste, artistic freedom,, and wealth of ideas...
Page 22 - Their wares have been unapproached until Mr. De Morgan took up the subject a short time since; his lustres now vie with, if they do not surpass, those of the old examples.
Page 5 - ... would become harder and closer in texture, and might be used for many indoor purposes, but would not allow of any use that involved the contact with water, as it would still be a mere clay pot.
Page 46 - Gilding has already been mentioned ; it is always applied over the glaze. harder than earthenware, but has a harder glaze, with, which many enamel colours have so little in common as to almost fail to adhere, and certainly frequently are found to look far from rich and glossy.