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.
Sources for John C. L. Sparkes — A Handbook to the Practice of Pottery Painting
John C. L. Sparkes — A Handbook to the Practice of Pottery Painting in Ceramic Arts
Held in the Ceramic Arts chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
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