Pottery; how it is made, its shape and decoration; practical instructions for painting on porcelain and all kinds of pottery with vitrifiable and common oil colors, with a full bibliography of standard works upon the ceramic art, and 42 illustrations
A practical manual on pottery manufacture and the painting of porcelain with vitrifiable and oil colors, written by George Ward Nichols and published by Putnam in New York in 1878 for amateur china painters and design students. Its plates reproduce Japanese brush sketches in red monochrome — owl on a plum branch, heron in reeds, boy riding an ox, dragonflies, monkeys, rabbits — loose motif sheets usable as spot art, borders, or repeat-pattern source.
