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How to apply royal Worcester, matt, bronze, La Croix and Dresden colors to china : a practical elementary hand-book for amateurs, containing reliable methods for gilding, mixing of colors, ground-laying, relief-paste, firing, etc.

Osgood, Adelaide Harriet · 1891 · New York : Osgood Art School · 22 pictures

A practical handbook of 1891 by Adelaide Harriet Osgood, published in New York by the Osgood Art School, teaching amateurs how to decorate china with gilding, colours and firing methods. The pictures are plates of circular china designs with a stylised fish swimming over water-weed and a shell, drawn in dark outline and flat grey tones, showing how a decorator can frame a motif within a border of branching sprigs.

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