Manière de restaurer soi-même les faïences, porcelaines, cristaux, marbres, terres cuites, grès, biscuits, émaux, etc. : suivie de la restauration des ouvrages en laque de Chine et du Japon et des procédés pour blanchir, teindre et ramollir l'ivoire : ouvrage indispensable aux amateurs pour l'entretien de leurs collections
A French how-to manual from 1872 by Ris-Paquot, published in Amiens and Paris, for collectors who want to repair their own faience, porcelain, crystal, marble and similar objects. Its plates show engraved and tinted vases, ewers and dishes with classical and floral ornament, drawn as clean outlines with light wash shading. A designer could take from them the restrained ornament of French nineteenth-century decorative ceramics, including scrolled handles, garlanded urns and rose sprays.
