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R. H. — Roman gold is gold already prepared and mixed with oils ready 
for application to the china. It has always more or less alloy. Burnish gold 
is supposed to be chemically pure and comes in powder form by the penny 
weight and has to be rubbed down with fat oil and turpentine before using 
MRS. W. F. E. — If you wish to put the ivory glaze on a piece already 
fired and do not wish to repaint the piece first, you will need to tint it on 
delicately as you would any color. Then when dry, rub the powder into the 
surface until it all has an even matt appearance. For the tinting mix the 
color with fat oil to the consistency of tube colors, then thin with oil of 
lavender until it is no longer tacky. 
E. W. — You can remedy your plate with the spotted ruby lustre by using 
Aqua Regia on the lustre, which will probably remove it entirely. If not, 
warm the plate and pour melted wax all over it, pouring off the surplus. 
When cold, remove the wax with a knife from the portions covered with 
spoiled lustre and use hydrofluoric acid, cleansing thoroughly under running 
water. Do not allow the acid to touch your skin as it burns frightfully. 
Never use turpentine to clean the edges of lustre; it will almost surely ruin ; 
use alcohol and water with a stick. In regard lo the little rings that appeared 
on your underglaze blue band after firing, we cannot suggest any reason ex- 
cept moisture in the kiln. You might cover the band with little rings of 
black or hard gold or white enamel; the enamel would probably look best. 
We do not understand the business methods of the dealer you refer to, 
but if he can afford to give 407' off on his gold to any one, we doubt if it can 
be very pure gold. Most firms will give from 20S to 33;; on gold or materials 
if bought in large quantities, but they cannot afford to give a discount on a 
small order. 
MRS. H. B.— In the treatment of grapes by Aulich, you can substitute 
for air blue, deep blue green; for carmine blue, banding blue or dark blue; 
for flesh red, pompadour and albert yellow or capucine. 
E. L.— A good simple outfit for a beginner would be. as follows: We 
give the La Croix tube colors, as they aie easier to find in smaller places, 
although most artists prefer the powder colors which can be obtained from 
any of our advertisers by asking for the corresponding colors and are just as 
reliable. Jonquil yellow, orange yellow, yellow brown, brown 4 or 17, out- 
lining black, brown green, apple green, moss green, dark green, 7 deep blue 
green, dark blue, pompadour red (not rose pompadour), deep red brown, 
carmine 2 and 3, ruby purple, flux, Dresden aufsetzweis in tubes for enamel, 
Hancock's paste for raised gold, a good make of Roman gold. When more 
advanced you can add many desirable things to your outfit, such as colors, 
bronzes, lustres, etc. Write to our advertisers for a book on china painting. 
Those advertised in K. S. are all reliable. 
For brushes, get six square shaders, assorted sizes, from the largest to 
the smallest, six assorted pointed shaders, a grounding brush and a large 
and a small brush for gold, all quill brushes, some soft, old, white, wash silk 
and surgeon's cotton for pads. A bottle of fat or thick oil of turpentine, oil 
of lavender, spirits of turpentine, copaiba and clove oil: also alcohol to wash 
brushes, a steel point to remove dust, two small pallette knives, a square of 
ground glass and a china palette. These things are absolutely essential to 
do good work. 
VIOLET CUP AND 
SAUCER 
Florence Murphy 
THE flowers can be 
painted in natural 
colors unshaded, and out- 
lined in dark blue ; or in 
gold with green gold 
stems outlined in brown or 
black. The ground can be 
white or cream tint in bor- 
der, made of ivory yellow 
or yellow ochre put on 
thin. 
