Firing pottery flatware on a special rack

1972 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. M. Kosmodem'yanskaya
Keyword(s):  
Firing Pottery

scholarly journals Challenges and Scopes of Pottery Industry

Pravaha ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Prakash Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
International Market ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Grain Storage ◽  
Pottery Industry ◽  
The People ◽  
Firing Pottery ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Large Vessels ◽  
Festive Occasion

Pottery is unique art of making artifacts from clay. It produces different kinds of clay and ceramics items such as flowerpots, water and grain storage jars, large vessels for distilling rice spirits called rakshi, cooking pots, tableware, stoneware cups, bowls, and plates, stoneware pitcher and mug, etc. This research aims to examine challenges faced by the pottery industries and to examine scopes of the pottery industries in Nepal. This research is based on the descriptive method. The results show that there is good scope in the this industry but the people involved in this industry are facing different kinds of challenges or problems like shortage of raw materials, manpower, and lack of space to dry the formed pottery, firing pottery, to store the finished goods along with the different raw materials. The sales of the product in the national and international markets are being increased. This industry is being affected by the change in lifestyle and different substitute products. The intermediaries get good profits but they face the problem of getting the products damaged, demand dependent on the festive occasion, problem of transportation, etc. Study shows that there is a huge demand for Nepali handmade ceramic products in the international market due to their improved quality. Buyers are willing to pay a premium for handmade goods, which are propelling exports. Pravaha Vol. 24, No. 1, 2018, Page: 147-158

scholarly journals Pottery Firing Structures in the Early Mediterranean: Micromorphological Evidence and Archaeological Data from Middle Neolithic Kouphovouno (Southern Greece)

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-119
Author(s):  
Christèle Ballut ◽  
Josette Renard ◽  
William G. Cavanagh ◽  
Raphaël Orgeolet
Keyword(s):  
Direct Evidence ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Firing Pottery ◽  
Standard Structure ◽  
Construction Operation ◽  
Southern Greece

Excavations at Kouphovouno (Laconia, Greece) have revealed burnt deposits associated with firing structures. The ‘millefeuille’ (vanilla slice) observed was composed of alternating layers of burnt red aggregates and white carbonate. Their description, micromorphological study, and contrast with a more standard structure of the Middle Neolithic allow us to interpret the layers as belonging to a structure for firing pottery: a covered clamp. This study has clarified its method of construction, operation, and use within a domestic context. After heating and cooking, the production of pottery and lime was one of the pyrotechnological activities most consumptive of energy among Neolithic communities, yet direct evidence for firing installations has been elusive. A new approach to the problem of locating pottery firing sites is presented here. The firing of pottery seems the most likely use for this type of structure, though the production of lime is also discussed.

Mechanization and automation of firing pottery

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
Z. P. Sen' ◽  
I. I. Moroz ◽  
Ya. S. Gaivoronskii
Keyword(s):  
Firing Pottery

A CLASSIC-PERIODBARRIOPRODUCING FINE POLYCHROME CERAMICS AT TIKAL, GUATEMALA: Notes on ancient Maya firing technology

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Joseph Becker
Keyword(s):  
Architectural History ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Free Standing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Residential Group ◽  
The People ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Firing Pottery ◽  
Ceramic Manufacturing ◽  
Fine Ceramics

Significant indirect evidence suggests that one of the Classic-period residential groups at Tikal was the residence of a family of potters who produced high-quality painted wares. Delineation of the borders of residential Group 4H-1 at Tikal led me to postulate that thebajowas a major resource zone for ceramic manufacturing rather than a spatially limiting feature. This family of upscale ceramic producers used the adjacentbajoas a source of clay and fuel for firing pottery. The configuration of other groups near Group 4H-1 suggests not only that the people occupying the several groups on this peninsula were related, but that they were all involved in the production, painting, and distribution of fine ceramics. These several residential groups, located on adjacent house lots, define abarriowithin Tikal whose occupants formed an extended kin unit sharing an economic focus on the production of high-quality ceramics. A consideration of the contents of trash deposits that were used by the Maya for building fill and a study of the middens found adjacent to residential groups at Tikal provide clues to the location of a specific kiln, or firing area. Broken pottery in the structure fill tells us more than architectural history. In this example, pottery indicates how other aspects of one or more house lots were organized and used. In particular, these data suggest that abarrio-like cluster of households at Tikal, with its own ritual center (Group 5G-I), housed families of ceramic producers who had specifically located their residences in direct proximity to thebajo. The search for the firing facilities associated with the production of ceramics in Group 4H-1 is now a major research focus. “Kilns,” or firing facilities, should be among the various architectural features found “out back,” or located on the margins of a house lot. Kilns may have been of the trench type or free-standing small buildings, possibly within sheds, and are expected outside the perimeter formed by the main buildings of the residential group. The structures facing a plaza or series of plazas that are the most obvious elements of a single household tend to attract archaeological attention. Location of structures “out back,” or peripheral to the residential core buildings, could help define the configuration of household lots.

A New Perspective on the Relationships among Cream Paste Ceramic Traditions of Southeastern Mesoamerica

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector Neff ◽  
James W. Cogswell ◽  
Laura J. Kosakowsky ◽  
Francisco Estrada Belli ◽  
Frederick J. Bove
Keyword(s):  
El Salvador ◽  
Microprobe Analysis ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
Source Zone ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Interaction Spheres ◽  
Late Formative ◽  
Firing Pottery ◽  
Copan Valley ◽  
New Perspective

New ceramic compositional evidence has come to light that bears on the relationships among the cream paste ceramics of southeastern Mesoamerica. This evidence, which derives from instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and microprobe analysis, suggests that Ivory ware, a Late and Terminal Formative diagnostic found in southern Guatemala, is chemically similar not to other Guatemalan light firing pottery, but to Formative and Classic period cream paste wares from western El Salvador and Honduras. El Salvador is the clearest region of overlap between the Late Formative (Ivory Usulután) and Classic (Chilanga, Gualpopa, and Copador) representatives of this chemically homogeneous cream paste tradition, and therefore we argue that the source zone for all of them lies somewhere in western El Salvador and not in Honduras or Guatemala. This inference contradicts (1) our own earlier hypothesis that Ivory ware originated somewhere in the Guatemalan highlands and (2) the hypothesis that cream paste Copador originated in the Copán Valley. If this inference is correct, then (1) the importance of ceramic circulation in the Late and Terminal Formative Providencia and Miraflores interaction spheres has been underestimated and (2) during the Classic period, Copán absorbed the productive capacity of western El Salvador (represented in this case by cream paste polychrome pottery) to a greater extent than has been appreciated previously.

Feasibility Assessment of Using Cassava Rhizomes for Firing Pottery in Dan Kwian, Thailand

2011 ◽  
Vol 148-149 ◽  
pp. 1158-1163
Author(s):  
Jarinee Jongpluempiti ◽  
Kiatfa Tangchaichit
Keyword(s):  
Moisture Content ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Burning Time ◽  
Wood Fuel ◽  
Heating Value ◽  
Feasibility Assessment ◽  
Firing Pottery ◽  
Wood Fuels ◽  
The Cost

Cassava is one of the most important crops in Nakhon Ratchasima province which grows the most cassava in the Northeast of Thailand. Therefore, a large amount of cassava rhizome is left in the field after harvest. The objectives of this research were to study the feasibility of cassava rhizomes use for Dan Kwian pottery firing in the same province. The analysis consisted of physical properties, heating value and comparing firing the pottery by wood fuel and cassava rhizome. The results were that the cassava rhizomes, with moisture content of about 34.73%, had properties inferior to the woods. When the rhizomes are burned to give thermal energy to pottery products, the temperature profile of the rhizomes is similar to the profile of wood fuels. As a result, the typical quantity of rhizome required, burning time and cost are 3,627 kg, 40 hours and 1,814 baht, respectively, while the values for wood are about 2,600 kg, 34 hours and 2,600 baht, respectively. The cost of the rhizome is less than the wood by around 786 baht. Therefore, using cassava rhizome to replace wood fuel is feasible but it is necessary to control the moisture content to an appropriate level.

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