[Rarebooks] FS: 1886 French Victorian China Painters Guide
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“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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