134 CAUSSEE WORK. 



of rich and vivid colours and great variety 

 of pattern. The best of these are now manu- 

 factured at Halla, but are far inferior in 

 beauty to those on the ancient tombs about 

 Sukkur. I am indebted to a local work for 

 the following account of this manufacture, which 

 is called Caussee, and is used for making dishes 

 and covers, basins, vases, &c. : — 



'' These articles are manufactured in several 

 parts of Sindh, but the best are procurable at 

 Halla. The body of the tile is clay. Three 

 kinds of glazes are used, colourless, green, and 

 brown ; variety of colour is obtained in different 

 ways ; on a bed of fine clay, laid on the sur- 

 face to be glazed, metallic pigments, viz. those 

 of manganese, cobalt, and copper, are traced 

 in the figures wished to be represented, and 

 over these the transparent glass, in the pulver- 

 ised state, is placed. Thus ^^I'opared the tile 

 is subjected to heat, when the body is con- 

 verted into earthenware, the prepared fine 

 clay in contact with it into white porcelain, 

 the pigments into the figures, coloured purplish 

 black, azure, and green, and the glaze into the 

 transparent glass which forms the surface, and 

 transmits to view the coloiu-ed figures. The 



