Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.

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Title: Modern curiosities of art & nature extracted out of the cabinets of the most eminent personages of the French court : together with the choicest secrets in mechanicks, communicated by the most approved artists of France / composed and experimented by the Sieur Lemery, apothecary to the French king ; made English from the original French.
Author: Lémery, Nicolas, 1645-1715.
Publication: London :: Printed for Matthew Gilliflower ... and James Partridge...,; 1685.
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To mould small Figures of a Jasper Colour.

Having oyl'd your Moulds with a Pencil, diversify them with what Colours you think fit, tempered with Gum Tragaganth; if the Colours will run or spread, put in a little Ox Gall, but the thicker it is, the harder they will be, then make your Paste of what Colour you will, fill the Mould, tye it, and leave it to dry, then Burnish or Var∣nish; the Iron Wier to tye it must be very small.