coated withopaque pigment, and the potter out of colour or lustre uponthe smooth glaze of his earthenware. The scribbled back-ground of the white ornament filling up the space betweenthe raised letters on the Persian tile above is filigreed overwith a pattern of white showing through the lustre.… … 174. SCRATCHED STONEWARE. jigged lines of the stalk in the illustration show the difficultyof scratching curved lines cleanly on comparatively dry clay.The method of scraping through a coat of clay to a ground ofdifferent colour has already been mentioned. The worker in
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