Practical lessons in painting on china, porcelain, earthenware, faience and enamel
A French-authored manual of china painting published in London in 1879 by the artists' colourmen Lechertier, Barbe & Co., aimed at amateur and practising decorators of porcelain, earthenware, faience and enamel. The pictures show the trade equipment of the period: a fitted wooden paint box with divided compartments, a palette-style box with twenty-four wells for holding colours, and a set of graduated brushes with pointed and flat tips. A designer might take from them the compact, hinged, compartmented box format and the tidy line-engraved rendering of tools and small objects.
