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Smith, G. / The laboratory; or, School of arts: containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general; and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials
(1799)
Part III. The art of enamelling in ordinary, and the method of preparing the colours. The art of painting in enamel.--Curious instructions how to make artificial pearls.--Of doublets and foils, and the manner of colouring them.--The art of counterfeiting precious stones, with other rare secrets, p. 113
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ENAMELLIN@ IN ORDINARY,
PART III.
THE ART OF
PATAMELLING IN ORDIARY,
AND THE METHOD OF
PREPARING THE COLOURS.
THF ART OF PAINTING IN ENAMEL.-CURIOUS INSTRUCTIONS,
HOW TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL PEARLS.-OF DOUBLETS AN1I
FOILS, AND THE MAN#NER OF COLOUR 11G THEM.-THE ART
OF COUNTERFEITING PRECIOUS STONES, WITH OHER RARE
SECRETS,
Of amelling in Ordinary; and of preparing the Enamel-
colours.
E NAMELLING is the art of laying a coat of enamel
upon metals, 'as gold, silver, copper, &c. and of
burning n varous colours' by the fire, so as to preserve
indissoluble the figures and letters which are formed of
them. Several receipts are in the possession of curious ar-
tists, many of whom excel in this useful art; of these we
shall now proceed to give the detail.
VOL. 1.
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