bat printing

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In ceramics, a mode of printing patterns in color upon glazed ware. An engraving on copper is made with fine lines, from which an impression is taken in linseed-oil on a thin slab of gelatin. This impression is transferred to the glazed ware, and over it is then dusted a metallic color, which clings to the oil, and is afterward melted and fixed by firing. See bat, 13.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. (Ceramics) A mode of printing on glazed ware.