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for a while, when the paper is removed, leaving the design on the 

 ware. This is then gone over with colors and the design filled in. 

 The decoration is then called a " filled print ". The- amount of 

 " printed " ware turned out annually is very great. 



Raised gold work, often seen on wares, is made by painting the 

 design with a yellow paste overglaze, firing in the decorating kiln^ 

 and then covering with gold and firing again. 



Underglaze colors are fired at a sufiicient temperature to drive off 

 the oil. The overglaze colors are usually fixed in a mufile kiln in 

 which the temperature reaches between 900° and 1000° F. 



A rather ingenious method of making border decorations on 

 plates and cups consists in having a design, such as a flower or 

 cluster of leaves, stamped on a flat surface of fine-grained sponge. 

 The plate, for instance, is then placed on a wheel, and while slowly 

 revolving it receives a number of successive touches with the inked 

 surface of the sponge. In this way a continuous design is stamped 

 on the ware. The method is quick, cheap and well adapted to the 

 cheaper grades of white ware, for which it is used. 



ChromoUtho graphic decoration^ 



The adaptation of chroniolithographic printing to ceramics has 

 been quite recently successfully attempted, and may very possibly 

 supersede line engraving. The great advantage of the chroauo- 

 lithographic decoration lies in the high excellence of the ornament 

 that may be used and the purity of the color that may be obtained. 

 By this means the design of a first-class artist may be reproduced 

 with all its original delicacy and softness. This new method does 

 away with the filling in of prints, which is often of unequal quality. 

 Up to the present time chromolithographic work has been used only 

 for overglaze decoration, but experiments are being made with it in 

 underglaze ornamentation. The difliculties in the latter case are 

 porosity of the rough surface of the " biscuit " ware. The greatest 

 difiiculty is said to be this. In printing from engravings, the 



^ Jour. soc. arts, 18 Sep. 18913. p. 323. 



