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John C. L. Sparkes — A Handbook to the Practice of Pottery Painting

1879 · Book · Public Domain

A practical manual on painting and decorating pottery, written during the Victorian china-painting vogue. Sparkes, head of the Lambeth and later the South Kensington art schools, helped bring ceramic decoration into art education and the amateur's studio.

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