Improvements in the Ornamentation of China and Earthenware Surfaces.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 24th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
RESERVE CO
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Ornamentation of China and Earthenware
Surfaces.
We, THOMAS TAYLOR and WILLIAM TUNNICLIFF, trading as Taylor, Tunnicliff and
Company, of Eastwood, Hanley in the County of Stafford, Manufacturing Potters, and
WILLIAM HENRY SLATER, of 17 Clive Street, aforesaid, Designer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention has reference to the ornamentation of the surfaces of china, and
earthenware, and consists in producing raised decorations, or ornamental designs,
in relief, upon granulated surfaces, or what is known in commerce, as tapestry-
ware.
By our said invention raised decorations upon granulated surfaces, or surfaces
having a roughened or matted appearance, are produced by means of an enamel or
body paste, laid on with a brush or pencil, and if necessary, subsequently defined.
and chased, by a modelling or other tool.
In carrying out our invention, we proceed as follows:-
We take a china or earthenware article, with a granulated, or part granulated surface,
and upon parts of this said surface, which is specially prepared, and not glazed, in the
ordinary way, we delineate, or model up with an enamel paste, and by means of a
brush or tool, the desired decoration, which may be a flower, animal or other
ornament.
The decoration thus laid on, with the enamel paste, or body paste as aforesaid, is if
necessary manipulated and defined, by modelling or chasing tools.
The enamel or body paste, can be applied to any thickness or body, and with parts
thereof, if necessary graduated, so as to exhibit therethrough, portions of the under
granulated surface. Thus, if a lily be the decoration upon the said surface, the enamel
paste, is made to stand in relief more at one part, than at another, which gives
considerable delicacy to the definition of the object delineated.

page_text: The article thus decorated, is afterwards fired in an oven, without the granulated
and enamel paste decorations becoming glazed over, like ordinary glazed work. The
object being to give a soft and delicate appearance, in accordance with the tapestry
surface, on which the decorations are manipulated.
THOMAS TAYLOR.
WILLIAM TUNNICLIFF.
WILLIAM HENRY SLATER.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Ornamentation of China and Earthenware
Surfaces.
We, THOMAS TAYLOR and WILLIAM TUNNICLIFF trading as Taylor, Tunnicliff and
Company of Eastwood, Hanley, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturing Potters,
and WILLIAM HENRY SLATER of 17 Clive Street, aforesaid, Designer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention has reference to the ornamentation of the surfaces of china and
earthenware, and consists in producing raised decorations, or ornamental designs
in relief, upon granulated surfaces, or what is known in commerce as tapestry-
ware.
By our said invention, raised decorations upon granulated surfaces, or surfaces
having a roughened or matted appearance, are produced, by means of an enamel or
body paste, laid on with a brush or pencil, and if necessary, subsequently defined and
chased, by a modelling or other tool, and then fired, either in an oven or kiln,
according to the effect required. This process of embossing with body paste, and
subsequent firing, produces an imperishable decoration, which is not liable to chip,
crackle, or to become detached from the ware, as is the case when superimposed on a
highly glazed surface, owing to the difference of contraction in the paste, and in the
glaze, when either submitted to the thermale action on ordinary use and wear.

page_text: In carrying out our invention, we proceed as follows :—
We take a china or earthenware article, having a granulated, or part granulated
surface, and upon the said surface, which is unglazed, or unprepared in the ordinary
way, we delineate or model up, with an ordinary enamel paste, the desired ornament
or representation which is required to be produced, and which said body or enamel
paste is applied by means of a brush or other tool, according to the kind of
decoration.
The said decoration thus laid on, is if necessary manipulated and defined, or the lines
sharpened by a model or chasing tool.
The enamel or body paste can be applied or raised to any thickness, and with parts
thereof if necessary, so graduated or softened down, as to exhibit through the attenuated
portions, the under granulated surface. For instance, if a lily be the decoration, the
enamel paste is made to stand in relief more at one part than another, thus giving
considerable delicacy to the object delineated.
The article thus decorated, is then hard, or oven fired, without the granulated or
roughened surface, and the enamel paste decorations being glazed over, like ordinary
glazed work.
After oven firing, the surface of the article, and the aforesaid decorations may be
embellished in color and gold, and when thus finished, the said article is subjected to
the action of an enamel or kiln fire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
Producing or forming raised enamel or body paste decorations or ornaments, upon
granulated or other roughened surfaces of china and earthenware, commonly known
as "tapestry-ware"; the process or processes of manipulation, firing and decoration,
or decorations, being conducted and carried out in the ways, and for the purpose,
substantially as set forth.
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