“Traite Pratique de Peinture sur Faience et Porcelaine a l’usage des debutants”

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DISCUSSION:

A Victorian guide for beginning china painters with illustrations of tools and finished pieces, written by a Victorian-era French china restorer who also dabbled in writing books about antique ceramics. Solon ("Ceramic Literature, An Analytical Index". London: 1910) has nasty things to say about this book, as he does about all of Ris-Paquot’s work, and indeed about Ris-Paquot himself, but then Solon could be nasty or nice as the mood suited him.  In any case, today these works are of interest not for instructional purposes, per se, but as guides to what china painters of the period were reading and doing, and what instructions they may have been following, however deficient or asinine... This title is an abridged version of a much larger work published in 1883.

Softcover. 5.5”x9”, 48 pages, 2 color and 3 black & white plates, with 5 additional text illustrations, for a total of 10 numbered plates; the title page states 4 color plates and “11 vignettes”, but this appears to be in error as all the plates here are sequentially numbered and no further illustrations are called for in the text, and various editions appear to have had different plate counts. Solon calls for 4 plates, not the 5 present here.

Covers with some soil and wear (please see the photos, above). Inside, there is some light soil and uneven foxing.

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Stock #36924

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