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of the workmen belonging to the glaze-kiln to make the saggers during the intervals 

 of their work ; or if there be a relay of hands, the man who is not firing makes the 



When the ware is sufficiently dry, and in sufficient quantity to fill a kiln, the next 

 process is placing the various articles in the baked fire-clay vessels, which may be either 

 of a cylindrical or oval shape ; called gazettes, Fr. ; Kapseln, Ger. These are from 6 

 to 8 inches deep, and from 12 to 18 inches in diameter. When packed full of the dry 

 ware, they are piled over each other in the kiln. The bottom of the upper sagger forms 

 the lid of its fellow below ; and the junction of the two is luted with a ring of soft 

 clay applied between them. These dishes protect the ware from being suddenly and 

 unequally heated, and from being soiled by the smoke and vapours of the fuel. Each 

 pile of siiggers is called a bung. 



Plan of an English Pottery. 



A pottery should be placed by the side of a canal or navigable river, because the 

 articles manufactured do not well bear land-carriage. 



A Staffordshire pottery is usually built as a quadrangle, each side being about 100 

 feet long, the walls 10 feet high, and the ridge of the roof 5 feet more. The base of 

 the edifice consists of abed of bricks, 18 inches high and 16 inches thick; upon 

 which a mud wall in a wooden frame, called pise, is raised. Cellars are formed in 

 front of the buildings, as depots for the pastes prepared in the establishment. The wall 

 of the yard or court is 9 feet high and 18 inches thick. 



A, fig. 1644, is the entrance door ; B, the porter's lodge ; c, a particular warehouse ; 

 i>, workshop of the plaster-moulder ; E, the clay depot ; F, F, large gates, 6 feet 8 

 inches high ; G, the winter evaporation-stove ; H, the shop for sifting the paste- 

 liquors ; i, sheds for the paste-liquor tubs ; J, paste-liquor pits ; K, workshop for the 

 moulder of hollow ware ; i, ditto of the dish or plate moulder ; M, the plate drying- 



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stove N, workshop of the biscuit-printers ; o, ditto of the biscuit, with o', a 



window ; P, passage leading to the paste-liquor pits ; Q, biscuit warehouse ; E, r 



where the biscuit is cleaned as it comes out of the biscuit-kilns, s, s ; T, T, enamel- or 

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