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Title: The fireside university of modern invention, discovery, industry and art for home circle study and entertainment
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: McGovern, John. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Chicago, Union pub. house
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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lar ring and thebasin or mesa that is inside the ring. Of course, the mold can-not be an actual plate, turned upside down, for that would molda ring in the new plate. So we see the potter turns or lathesthe bottoms of our plates, and molds the upper sides of them.There are about two hundred and fifty potters and painters atSevres, and they call their slip barbotine.,J The painters areall artists of unusual ability. U is done with the dry Sevres plate? It is put on a wheel or lathe and smoothed with sand-paper.A teacup gets its handle at this stage. The little handle is castin a mold which comes in pieces like a glass mold. The littlehandle is affixed to the bowl with some of the slip now used asa lute or solder. The modeler now takes the vessel or plate CHINA. 447 and corrects any distortions that he may detect, working withmodelers tools. Groups of small statuary are cast or moldedto this stage. Describe the Kilns at Sevres. An oven that bakes China or Pottery of any kind, should let
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Fig. 168. PORCELAIN-BISCUIT SCOURING. the fire through its bottom—it burns rather than bakes. Tiiekilns at Sevres have four stories with three ovens, and all the 448 THE FIRESIDE UNIVERSITY. floors of these three ovens are perforated. The fire of coke orwhite wood is in the lower story. Our raw plate and cupgo in the top oven, where the heat is least. But the raw articlesare placed in porcelain jars or boxes (saggers), and the boxesare piled high in the ovens. The lower ovens are filled witharticles that are further along in the process. There are windowsof talc (a magnesium mineral—soap-stone), through which thepotters observe the effects of the firing, and there are means fortaking out samples. The fire is kept up for about thirty-sixhours, and the ovens cool for nearly a week. Our plate and cupare now biscuit. Describe the Sevres Pate-sur-pate decoration. If the painter now take the biscuit and tint it a certain hue,and then paint on the tint with the white outer porcelain glaz

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