THE POTTER S ART. 



Fig. 20. 



yielding to its motion at the other end. After each impulse the 

 strap is loosened and restored to its first position on the edge in 

 order to repeat the impulse. The strap is prevented from slipping 

 over the surface of the edge of the wheel by pins or points pro- 

 jecting from its surface. 



The potter places the paste to be formed into the desired article 

 on the head of the wheel, and shapes it with his hands and 

 fingers. 



Another man is represented carrying away the finished articles 

 to the oven. 



5. The ovens and the process of baking are represented in fig. 21. 

 A man in a shed on the left is employed in placing the articles to 

 be baked in cylindrical cases of baked earth, which correspond to 

 those which our potters call SAGGERS. 



An empty oven is represented at A, where a man receives the 

 saggers filled with the articles to be baked, and arranges them in 

 the oven. When the oven is thus filled it is closed by brickwork. 

 A second oven thus filled, and bricked up, is represented at C. 



The fire doors or feeding mouths of the furnaces, by which the 

 ovens are heated, appear at D, and the openings for the escape of 

 smoke and the products of the combustion are represented at 

 o, 6, and c. 

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