china painter instruction book, The
An instruction manual and trade catalogue issued in 1914 by Thayer & Chandler, a Chicago supplier of artists' materials, to teach amateur and professional china painters and sell them colors and brushes. Line-block ornaments show flower-and-ribbon headpieces, grapevine borders, scrolled corner fillers and outlined vase shapes with tulip motifs, usable as rules, spot ornaments and repeat bands.
