saggar
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Contemporary use
- Precision sintering and contamination control
- Surface protection of whiteware ceramics
- Structural stability and stack loading
- Production
- Historic use
- Ming porcelain
- Staffordshire potbanks
- Studio pottery
- Saggar clay
- References
- External links
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A saggar (also misspelled as sagger or segger) is a type of kiln furniture. It is a ceramic boxlike container used in the firing of pottery to enclose or protect ware being fired inside a kiln. The name may be a contraction of the word safeguard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “saggar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.