36 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
half in transverse diameter in a typical specimen. The bot- 
tom is not flat, but owing to the sides curving down regularly, 
it has almost the form of a hemisphere: the height, or rather 
the depth, of a tigari is fifteen inches. 
igaries are prepared on the ordinary turning-wheels of 
potters in the usual way and, after drying. are baked like 
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ordinary pottery. The colour of a tigari from Dacca is black- 
Fig. i: 
ish though others of brick-red colour are found there and in 
other parts. This difference of colour is due to the composi- 
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in practically all parts of India. It is, on the other hand, 
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