KERAMIC STUDIO 
SUGGESTIONS 
FOR A CUP AND SAUCER 
HE body of cup may be tinted any 
color, but something dark will be 
preferable if there is much gold 
used. Use a dark green tint. Have 
the band on top and bottom gold, 
with the chrysanthemums, leaves 
and stems modeled in colored enamels, the handle 
in gold. After the gold is fired, shadow leaves in 
color can be painted directly upon it, which gives 
an interesting effect of colored bronze. Use 
white enamel that will stand a hard fire (see 
article on Enamel). It may be colored with an}? 
of the Lacroix colors, but if pink is used, remem- 
ber that pink will fire darker. The flowers can 
be modeled in the white enamel, fired, and then 
afterwards painted. In making the petals of 
enamel (or paste), be sure to give that crisp little 
turn or twist that the petal has in nature. It 
should be done in one stroke of the brush. 
Enamel will fire quite safely over good gold, 
it will be poor economy to use anything but 
the best. The design can be carried out simply 
in color, if one does not care to put more work 
upon it. 
