Pâte-sur-pâte (paste on paste) is a French term used to describe painting on porcelain in a semi-fluid white slip, or liquid clay. Successive applications are made to build up the design in slight relief in white on a colored ground, and the details are then carved by hand before firing. The technique was used in China during the eighteenth century and was introduced at the royal French factory at Sèvres around 1851. It was brought to England by Marc-Louis Solon (1835-1912), who left the Sèvres factory during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) to work at Minton. Henry Hollins was one of Solon’s students, who occasionally signed his work.
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![Octagonal blue jasper plaque with white relief figure of Zephyr with garland,
Josiah Wedgwood made these medallions in a range of sizes. According to his printed sale catalogue of 1779, the ones of this size were especially suitable 'for inlaying in fine Cabinets, Writing-Tables, Bookcases [etc] of which they form the most beautiful enrichment at moderate Expence.' They were also mounted on wooden and ivory tea canisters, on small boxes for snuff, patches, toothpicks and cards, and were incorporated into cut-steel brooches, bracelets and other jewellery.](https://media.artsbma.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11083633/SAN_VOL2BMA_Repositorydb_photod0590u20705909AFI18082008_01_d_o2-400x654.jpg "SAN_VOL2BMA_Repositorydb_photod0590u20705909AFI18082008_01_d_o2 | Birmingham Museum of Art")
