KERAMIC STUDIO 
77 
TREATMENT BRONZE TOBACCO JAR 
DRAW the bands and then the flowers in India ink; fill the 
entire background with Bronze, evenly painted on, (use 
Bronze 21 and the same quantity of Gold), leaving only the 
top, bands, and design of flowers and leaves white. 
Shade the flowers slightly with Brown Green and Moss 
Green V, the centers Yellow, and the stem and leaves rather 
Pale Green. There is not much shading, as the design is 
treated more in flat washes and outlined in gold (flat) which 
gives it a more conventional character. 
The bands are edged with small paste dots (beading) the 
blossoms in the band are modeled in raised paste, so also the 
blossoms in the cover. Then the band and blossoms and lid 
are covered with gold. The wavy lines on top of the jar are 
gold. This design may also be carried out in color. A dark 
brown background may be used, very appropriately. (We 
have been requested by Sartorius & Co. to test their Evans 
brown, as they claim it to be unusually fine, so also their soft 
flux.) Do not use matt colors for backgrounds, unless it be 
in small surfaces or bands. It is the wrong idea to make 
china resemble a piece of cloth. 
Since writing the above, we have found in the woods, 
near Long Island Sound, a fungus growth called "Indian 
Pipe." it being the exact shape of a pipe with curved stem, 
It is perfectly white with touches of dark green or brown 
around the scales which are on the stem. This could be ar- 
ranged charmingly in a conventional design for a tobacco jar. 
but we will have to give it later. 
