Description:Pottery worker Fredrick Jones who worked at Copelands in Stoke, placing glost ware. He is placing 7" plates in a saggar in preparation for firing the dipped ware.
This firing will create a hard glaze on the ware. This is the second firing the ware has undertaken, the first being the biscuit firing.
The placer is using kiln furniture called thimbles to keep the ware separated in the saggar. This prevents the ware sticking together as the glaze melts in the firing.
Saggars
Saggars are containers made from fireclay which protected pottery in the kiln from the intense heat and smoke during bottle oven firing.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.