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Japan, a record in colour (1901)

Menpes, Mortimer, 1855-1938, Menpes, Dorothy · London : A. & C. Black · leaf 444

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I have ever had, and I cansafely say that I have never worked in a more congenialatmosphere than when sitting on a mat in that littleporcelain shop surrounded by those twelve litde artists.I shall never forget the anxious moments when myproducts were being fired. Sometimes I have gone onfor twelve… … Workers Nothing can be more exciting than the first peep atporcelain after it has been fired. A mass of dead heavy-looking clay is put into the furnace and fired ; youpeep at it after some hours, and find, to your surprise,a rare paradise of glazed white and blue, so brilliantand sparkling that it…

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