Traité des couleurs pour la peinture en émail et sur la porcelaine... suivi de plusieurs mémoires sur... le travail de la porcelaine, l'art du stuccateur, la manière d'exécuter les camées..., le moyen de perfectionner la composition du verre blanc

Abstract

An important eighteenth-century work written by the chemist D'Arclais de Montamy, a close friend of Diderot, who was responsable for bringing out the book after his death. The first section describes how to paint in enamel; the second part deals with painting on porcelain as well as supplying notes on engraved gems and cameos, restoring paintings, gilding, glazing, varnishing, etc. (Ursus Rare Books, catalogue 313)