The Leisure Hour Volume 2.cBooks Group
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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 858 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236079862
File Name: The.Leisure.Hour.Volume.2.pdf
Download Link: The Leisure Hour Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...fact that he has to paint in disguised colours, which only manifest their real hues-when they come out of the fire. In this establishment we find a group of artists in an upper room by themselves, quietly pursuing their fascinating art. Flower-pieces, landscapes, sporting-pieces, fruit-pieces, are gradually growing into form and brilliancy under their hands. Rich and elaborate designs, fanciful ornaments, arabesque patterns, and heraldic or civic blazonries displayed in minute interfacings of scarlet and gold--such are some of the glittering evidences of their taste and industry which greet the eye at every turn. The colours used, which look rather dull upon the palette, here represented by a square Dutch tile, are one and all prepared from metallic oxides, and they are ground up on the premises with certain fusible transparent materials suited for the several colours of which they are made the vehicle, and which, melting in the lain, actually become so many coloured glasses incorporated with the body of the ware. A great deal of gold is used for ornamental purposes, and this is applied to china in the state of an amalgam with a metallic flux, ground fine with turpentine; it is mostly prepared in London for the potter's use. When the artist has finished his picture, it has to be placed in the enamel-kiln, where the flux used as the vehicle of the colours vitrifies, and the tints assume their proper hues and brilliancv: this, however, is not the case with the gold, which still retains a dull brownish hue, and has to be burnished by hand before the finishing is complete. On entering the burnishing-room our ears are assailed by a rapid clattering noise, such as might be made by a score or two of pairs of castanets all in exercise at once: this proceeds from th...
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