Description:Lantern slide showing paintresses decorating porcelain dolls heads.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this slide reads;
"Paintresses. Colour may be further added to the ware by hand either with or without the printed design. The paintresses use camel hair pencils and various metal oxides mixed with fat oil &c. [sic]"