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M. Louise McLaughlin — China Painting: A Practical Manual for the Use of Amateurs in the Decoration of Hard Porcelain

1877 · Book · Public Domain

An early American manual for amateur china painters, covering the colors, brushes, oils, grounds, designs, and firing needed to decorate hard porcelain. It helped make ceramic decoration an accessible and serious practice for women working within the emerging American art-pottery movement.

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