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Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McGovern, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Chicago, Union pub. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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fe-time. How were the Blue Pictures put on ? By a set of artists, each making a different part of the picture,owing to the influences of caste and unionism in the trades.When the Chinese began to paint pictures to please theEuropeans, the effects were still more grotesque, as all the badfeatures of the bad European engravings which furnished theoriginal copies were faithfully reproduced. Describe, briefly\ the entire Chinese Process ? With a quantity of the Kao-lin the Chinese potter throws his vessel on the wheel, using such molds as may be useful, andsuch hard instruments as will shorten his labors. The article isthen set to dry. The painters now apply their blue figures andlandscape. The slip fluid is now blown on with a pipe, as theChinaman loves to spray things, or the article is dipped. As we CHINA. have shown, it is with the fineness and purity of this slip thatthe Chinaman charges his famous patience. He has ground andground in water the heritage left him by the ancestor whose
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Fig. 166. PORCELAIN—THE DIPPING ROOM. memory he so religiously reveres. The new vessel, painted andvarnished with slip, is now packed in a clay box called a sagger inEnglish countries, and the saggers are piled up in the kiln. Thesurrounding of clay in the sagger keeps off the smoke of the 444 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. firing. The firing goes on for over a day, and the cooling alsogoes forward slowly. Now, if the cup is good, it may be gilded.A band of gold leaf may be laid on the upper outer edge, onsizing, and the cup must be fired a second time, but in a moreopen kiln with less heat. After the cup comes out, the metalband must be polished with a hard stone instrument. Paintingmay be done over the glaze, and much of the early porcelainthat came from China was thus improved by French paint-ers, greatly reducing its present value to collectors. What were the medieval Western Potters doing ? They were making vases and ornamental articles. Famouspotteries existed on the Balearic Isles,

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