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  2. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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    In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming excess clay from leather-hard dried ware that is stiff but malleable, and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour.

  3. Kiln furniture - Wikipedia

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    A pernette from an archaeological find. Placed into a kiln upside down with respect to the drawing. A pernette or stilt is a prop to support pottery in a kiln so that pottery does not touch each other or kiln's floor. [13] In archaeology, they may be upside-down fired clay tripods, leaving characteristic marks at the bottoms of the pottery ...

  4. Iga ware - Wikipedia

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    Iga ware uses local clay which is extremely resistant to heat, reacts well to repeated firing, and is fired over three days in a kiln dug into the ground. The clay tends to have a high level of hardness and is created on a pottery wheel. The potter delicately uses a spatula to give curvature. This distinctive curve lets the flames lick over the ...

  5. Jun ware - Wikipedia

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    By the Yuan dynasty, Jun ware production had spread to other kiln sites in Henan, Hebei and Shanxi provinces, [18] although Yuzhou City was the prime area for Jun ware production. Some fine quality pieces are known, often a good deal larger than previously. [19] Investigations of Jun ware kiln sites began in 1951 under Chen Wanli of the Palace ...

  6. Kiln - Wikipedia

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    Bottle kiln: a type of intermittent kiln, usually coal-fired, formerly used in the firing of pottery; such a kiln was surrounded by a tall brick hovel or cone, of typical bottle shape. The tableware was enclosed in sealed fireclay saggars; as the heat and smoke from the fires passed through the oven it would be fired at temperatures up to 1,400 ...

  7. Stilt (ceramics) - Wikipedia

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    A tripod stilt found at the site of Linthorpe Art Pottery Tripod pernette (an archaeological find). Placed into a kiln upside down with respect to the drawing Pernettes stuck in the walls of the saggars to separate flat pieces. Stilts are small supports used when firing glazed ceramics to stop the melting glaze from fusing them to each other or ...