A NEW METHOD OF DECORATING CHINA, PORCELAIN, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASS WITH NATIVE PURE OR ADULTERATED GOLD,SILVER, PLATINA, OR OTHER METALS, OR FLUXED OR LOWERED WITH LEAD OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE; WHICH INVENTION OR NEW METHOD LEAVES THE METALS AFTER BEING BURNED IN THEIR METALLIC STATE
Year: 1810

page_text: WARBURTON'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
WARBURTON, of Cobridge, in the County of Stafford, China Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of
February last, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto me, the said Peter Warburton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Peter Warburton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Peter Warburton, my execu-
tors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
Invention
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
of "A NEW METHOD OF DECORATING CHINA, PORCELAIN, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASS
WITH NATIVE PURE OR ADULTERATED GOLD, SILVER, PLATINA, OR OTHER METALS,
OR FLUXED OR LOWERED WITH LEAD OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE; WHICH INVENTION
OR NEW METHOD LEAVES THE METALS AFTER BEING BURNED IN THEIR METALLIC
STATE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said Peter Warburton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, may more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Peter Warburton, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in manner
following, that is to say:
My Invention consists in decorating china, porcelain, earthenware, and glass
by means of printing instead of painting upon the same, with such preparations
of gold, silver, and platina, as are made use of by painters to produce the
metallic appearances called burnished gold, and silver and steel lustre, and
which have hitherto been effected by painting only.
In the application of this Invention I employ gold, silver, and platina in
the three following methods :-.
First method of printing.-I take an impression from a plate of copper,
or any substance on which an engraving can be made, in.. the following
manner: The necessary-oils are rubbed with a boss. into the figure, land-
scape, or design engraved on the plate. The plate is then cleaned' with the
hand or otherwise, in order. to take off all the oils except what fill the part
on which the figure, landscape, or design-is engraved.. A substance, composed
of glue and-isinglass, called by potters and printers a bat, is then applied to
the plate, and the impression is taken off by means of a boss or ȧ-roller. The
impression is then transferred.from the bat to the earthenware, china, or glass
intended to be decorated by means of a boss; after which such preparations of
gold, silver, and. platina as are employed by painters to produce the metallic
appearances called-burnished gold and silver, and steel lustre, being previously
dryed and reduced to a state of powder, are laid on the piece of earthenware,
china, or glass intended to be decorated, with cotton, wool, or any substance
fit for the purpose; the gold, silver, or platina-adhering to that part only which
has received the impression, as above described. It is afterwards cleaned with
silk, cotton; or any substance fit for the purpose, and then put into the oven
or. kiln in the usual way.
Second method. 1 charge or fill the figure, landscape, or design engraved
on a plate of copper, or any substance on which an engraving can be made,
with the necessary oils; the plate is then cleaned with the hand or otherwise
in order to take off. all the oils.except what fill the part in which the figure,
landscape, or. design is engraved. Potters' printing paper, being previously
şized in the usual way, is then applied to the plate, and the impression is taken
off by means of a potter's printing press, and transferred from the paper to
the earthenware, china, or glass intended to be decorated, by means of flannel,
or any substance fit for the purpose; -the aforesaid preparations of gold, silver,
and platina being previously dried and reduced to powder, are then laid on

page_text: with cotton, wool, or any substance fit for the purpose; the gold, silver, or
platina adhering to that part only which has received the impression, as above
described. It is afterwards cleaned with silk, cotton, or any substance fit for
the purpose, and then put into the oven or kiln in the usual way.
Third method. I mix such preparations of gold, silver, and platina as are
made use of by printers to produce the metallic appearances called burnished
gold and silver, and steel lustre, with the necessary oils. This mixture in a
liquid state is then laid upon the figure, landscape, or design, engraved on a
plate of copper, or any substance on which an engraving can be made, and
rubbed in with a dabber. The plate is afterwards cleaned with a piece of
leather, or any substance fit for the purpose, called by printers a handcuff or a
hand boss. Potters' printing paper, being previously sized in the usual way,
is then applied to the plate, and an impression of the figure, landscape, or
design is taken off by means of a potter's printing press, and transferred to
the earthenware, china, of glass intended to be decorated by means of a rubber.
The paper is then taken off, leaving thereon the impression, and it is after-
wards put into the oven or kiln in the usual way. Gold, silver, and platina
china; gold, silver, and
must be printed upon the glaze of earthenware and
platina printed upon earthenware, china, or glass, in burning, burnishing, and
in all other respects, are treated in the same manner as gold, silver, and platina
laid on with a pencil are treated.
In printing with gold and silver I have found my first and second methods
the most advantageous; in printing with platina my third method is the best.
It would be useloss to describe the composition of the oils and the bats, the
same being well known; and equally useless to describe the processes by
which gold, silver, and platina are rendered capable of being employed by
the painter and by the printer, these processes not being of my Invention.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER.
WARBURTON, of Cobridge, in the County of Stafford, China Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of
February last, for Himself, Пlis heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto me, the said Peter Warburton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Peter Warburton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Peter Warburton, my execu-
tors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the tern of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A NEW METHOD OF DECORATING CHINA, PORCELAIN, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASS
WITH NATIVE PURE OR ADULTERATED GOLD, SILVER, PLATINA, OR OTHER METALS,
OR FLUXED OR LOWERED WITH LEAD OR ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE; WHICH INVENTION
OR NEW METHOD LEAVES THE METALS AFTER BEING BURNED IN THEIR METALLIC
STATE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said Peter Warburton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and.
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, may more fully appear..

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, 1, the said
Peter Warburton, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in manner
following, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in decorating china, porcelain, earthenware, and glass
by means of printing instead of painting upon the same, with such preparations
of gold, silver, and platina, as are made use of by painters to produce the
metallic appearances called burnished gold, and silver and steel lustre, and
which have hitherto been effected by painting only.
In the application of this Invention I employ-gold, silver, and platina in
the three following methods :-
First method of printing.-I take an impression from a plate of copper,
or any substance on which an engraving can be. made, in the following
manner: The necessary oils. are rubbed with a boss into the figure, land-
scape, or design engraved on the plate. The plate is then cleaned with the
haud or otherwise, in order to take off all thé-oils-except what fill the part
on which the figure, landscape, or design is engraved. A substance; composed
of glue and.isingläss, called by potters and printers :abat,.is.then applied to
the plate; and the impression is taken off by means of a boss'or.a.roller: The
impression: is then transferred from the bat to the earthenware, china, or glass
intended to be decorated by means of .a boss; after which such preparations of
gold, silver, and. platina asiare employed by painters to produce the metallic
appearances called burnished gold and silver, and steel lustre, being previously
dryed and reduced to a state of. powder, are laid on the piece of earthenware,
china, or glass intended to be decorated, with cotton,..wool, or any substance
fit for the purpose, the gold, silver, or platinȧ adhering to that part only which
has received the impression, as above described. It is afterwards-cleaned with
silk, cotton, or any substance fit for the purpose, and .then. put into the oven'
or kiln in the usual way.
Second method.-1 charge or fill the figure,.. landscape, or dosign engraved
on a plate of copper, or any substance on which an engraving can be made,
with the necessary oils; the plate is then cleaned with the hand or otherwise
in order to take off all the oils except what fill the part -in-which- the figure,
landscape, or design is engraved. Potters' printing paper, being previously
sized in the. usual way, is: then applied to the plate, and the impression is taken
off by means of a potter's printing press; and transferred from the paper to
. the earthenware, china, or glass intended to be decorated, by means of flannel,
or any substance fit for the purpose; the aforesaid preparations of gold, silver,
and platina being previously dried and reduced to powder, are then laid on

page_text: with cotton, wool, or any substance fit for the purpose; the gold, silver, or
platina adhering to that part only which has received the impression, as above
described. It is afterwards cleaned with silk, cotton, or any substance fit for
the purpose, and then put into the oven or kiln in the usual way.
Third method. I mix such preparations of gold, silver, and platina as are
made use of by printers to produce the metallic appearances called burnished
gold and silver, and steel lustre, with the necessary oils. This mixture in &
liquid state is then laid upon the figure, landscape, or design, engraved on a
plate of copper, or any substance on which an engraving can be made, and
rubbed in with a dabber. The plate is afterwards cleaned with a piece of
leather, or any substance fit for the purpose, called by printers a handcuff or a
hand boss. Potters' printing paper, being previously sized in the usual way,
is then applied to the plate, and an impression of the figure, landscape, or
design is taken off by means of a potter's printing press, and transferred to
the earthenware, china, of glass intended to be decorated by means of a rubber.
The paper is then taken off, leaving thereon the impression, and it is after-
wards put into the oven or kiln in the usual way. Gold, silver, and platina
must be printed upon the glaze of earthenware and china; gold, silver, and
platina printed upon earthenware, china, or glass, in burning, burnishing, and
in all other respects, are treated in the same manner as gold, silver, and platina
laid on with a pencil are treated.
In printing with gold and silver I have found my first and second methods
the most advantageous; in printing with platina my third method is the best.
It would be useless to describe the composition of the oils and the bats, the
same being well known; and equally useless to describe the processes by
which gold, silver, and platina are rendered capable of being employed by
the painter and by the printer, these processes not being of my Invention.