Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition / For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William Norman Brown ( Author )
Click "free sample" to read the whole book no need to purchase. "This," continues Mr. Dickson, "would at the best produce but a very pale blue enamel or a cream. It was afterwards made with flake white or dry white lead ground in turps only and mixed with the polishing copal varnish with the addition of tints as required, by which means a white of any required character could be produced." BLUE JAPAN GROUNDS. Authorities state that these may be formed from bright Prussian blue or verditer glazed over with Prussian blue or of smalt. By bright Prussian blue possibly a genuine Prussian blue toned down to a sky blue with white lead is meant, and by verditer the variety known as refiners' blue verditer, and as to smalt it must not be forgotten that it changes its colour in artificial light.
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