[Rarebooks] FS: 1886 French Guide to China Painting

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Traite Pratique de Peinture sur Faience et Porcelaine a l’usage
des debutants”

By O.E. Ris-Paquot.
Published in Paris by Librairie Renouard in 1886. 12th edition.

DISCUSSION: A Victorian guide for beginning china painters with
illustrations of tools and finished pieces, written by a Victorian-era
French china restorer who also dabbled in writing books about antique
ceramics. Solon ("Ceramic Literature, An Analytical Index". London: 1910)
has nasty things to say about this book, as he does about all of
Ris-Paquot’s work, and indeed about Ris-Paquot himself, but then Solon
could be nasty or nice as the mood suited him.  In any case, today these
works are of interest not for instructional purposes, per se, but as
guides to what china painters of the period were reading and doing, and
what instructions they may have been following, however deficient or
asinine... This title is an abridged version of a much larger work
published in 1883.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 5.5”x9”, 48 pages, 2 color and 3 black & white
plates, with 5 additional text illustrations, for a total of 10 numbered
plates; the title page states 4 color plates and “11 vignettes”, but this
appears to be in error as all the plates here are sequentially numbered
and no further illustrations are called for in the text, and various
editions appear to have had different plate counts. Solon calls for 4
plates, not the 5 present here.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers with some soil and wear (please see the photos,
above). Inside, there is some light soil and uneven foxing.

PRICE: $60.00

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