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Title: Annual report of the Regents
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: New York State Museum University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
Subjects: New York State Museum Science
Publisher: Albany : J.B. Lyon, State Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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The adaptation of chromolithographic printing to ceramics hasbeen quite recently successfully attempted, and may very possiblysupersede line engraving. The great advantage of the chroma-lithographic decoration lies in the high excellence of the ornamentthat may be used and the purity of the color that may be obtained.By this means the design of a first-class artist may be reproducedwith all its original delicacy and softness. This new method does,away with the filling in of prints, which is often of unequal quality.Up to the present time chromolithographic work has been used onlyfor overglaze decoration, but experiments are being made with it inunderglaze ornamentation. The difiiculties in the latter case areporosity of the rough surface of the biscuit ware. The greatestdifiiculty is said to be this. In printing from engravings, the J Jour. soc. arts, 18 Sep. 1896. p. 322. 00 <VO O CO CU
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^ oP. a o ^1 % X CLAYS OF NEW YORK 817 *^ print ^ is really a relatively thick line of color; just in proportionas the engraver cuts deeply into the plate, so is the quantity of color taken up . Xow undergiaze plates are cut much more deeplythan enamels ^% and if the transfer or prmted paper is ex-amined under a microscope the undergiaze prints are seen to con-sist of raised (as we have previously said), relatively thick ridges ofcolor, laid with the point of the ridge uppermost. It is this depthor strength of cutting that enables the undergiaze prints to producetheir strong patterns, for, owing to the action of the glaze, if onlya thin film of color, as in chromolithography, were applied to theware, the decoration would be so faint as scarcely to be visible.The number of colors which have a strong staining power whenapplied only in a thin coat is small. This is the chief difficulty.At present the best chromolithographic work is done by the French,and by some Staffordshire potters. Ne

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