[Rarebooks] FS: 1886 French Victorian China Painters Guide

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“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.

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.

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.

Covers with some soil and wear. Inside, there is some light soil and 
uneven foxing. [36924]  $50

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