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or perfectly fine washed material with a straw mat laid over it. 

 When the pasty substance is poured in, the water filters partly 

 through, while the clay paste is deposited gradually. The water 

 which collects upon it is drained off through a side opening, and 

 the material is dried in a red-hot furnace and finally worked up 

 and kneaded with the feet and hands. When this is done, it is 



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-TEAPOT OF GREY-BROWN STONE-WARE : FROM KUWANA, IN ISE. 



left to ferment In a pit or damp chest, not for a year, as was 

 formerly the case in China, it is said, but for a few weeks or 

 months, before using in the factory. 



By far the largest part of the clay-wares of Japan are shaped on 

 the Rokuro or potter's wheel. The apparatus employed for this 



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