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tion for the Purpose of Ornamenting Earthen and Porcelaine "Ware 

 with an Encaustic Gold Bronze, together with a peculiar species of 

 Encaustic Painting in Various Colours, in Imitation of the Antient 

 Etruscan and Roman Earthenware, is described in the manner fol- 

 lowing (that is to say) : 



"FIRST PROCESS, OR PREPARATION OF THE INGREDIENTS. 



" No. 1. A white Earth from Ayoree; in North America. Cal- 

 cine this in a red heat about half an hour. 



"No. 2. Bronze powder. Dissolve one ounce of pure gold in 

 aqu. rega., precipitate it with copper, then wash the precipitate 

 with hot water till it is sweet or clean from the acid, dry it, and 

 lay it up for use. 



"No. 3. Take two ounces of crude antimony livigated, two 

 ounces of tin ashes, and six ounces of white lead ; mix them well 

 together, and calcine them in a potter's furnace along with gloss 

 cream-coloured ware. 



" No. 4. Take eight ounces of good smalts, one ounce of roasted 

 borax, four ounces of red lead, one ounce of nitre ; mix the ingre- 

 dients well together, and fire them in a crucible in a potter's bisket 

 oven. 



" No. 5. Take English copperas or vitriol of iron, calcine it in a 

 moderate red heat about two hours, then wash it in hot water till 

 it is sweet, dry it, and lay it up for use. 



"No. 6. White lead. 



"No. 7. Flint calcined and ground. 



"No. 8. Manganese. 



"No. 9. Zaffer. 



"No. 10. Copper calcined to blackness. 



" SECOND PROCESS, OR COMPOUNDING AND MIXING THE COLOURS. 



" Shineing Black. A. Three ounces No. 8, three ounces No. 9, 

 three ounces No. 10, eleven ounces No. 6, six ounces of the green F. 



" Bed. B. Two ounces No. 1, two ounces No. 3, one ounce 

 No. 5, three ounces No. 6. 



" Orange. C. Two ounces No. 1, fourteen ounces No. 3, half an 

 ounce No. 5, four ounces No. 6. 



" Dry Black. D. One ounce No. 4, two ounces No. 8. 



"White. E. Two ounces No. 1, two ounces No. 6. 



" Green. P. One ounce No. 1, two ounces No. 3, five ounces 

 No. 4. 



" Blue. G. One ounce No. 1, five ounces No. 4. 



" Yellow. H. No. 3 alone. 



