The supports and gauges used inside a kiln when firing pottery, including the saggar that shields ware from flame, the kiln furniture that holds pieces apart and the pyrometric cone that shows when the ware has reached the heat it needs. A tool belongs here when its cited source describes it as used inside a kiln to support, protect or gauge the firing. It excludes the potters wheel and the hand shaping tools used before firing. Kiln furniture can account for most of the mass of a kiln load, so potters count it carefully.
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Stilt (ceramics) (Wikipedia)
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Stilts are a form of kiln furniture.
Tile crank (Wikipedia)
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A tile crank is used in a pottery kiln to hold a stack of ceramic tiles apart while they are fired.
Muffle furnace (Wikipedia)
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A muffle furnace or muffle oven (sometimes retort furnace in historical usage) is a furnace in which the subject material is isolated from the fuel and all of the products of combustion, including gases and flying ash.
Pyrometric Cone (Wikipedia)
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Pyrometric cones (witness cones) are pyrometric devices that are used to gauge heatwork during the firing of ceramic materials in a kiln.
Kiln furniture (Wikipedia)
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Kiln furniture are devices and implements inside furnaces used during the heating of manufactured individual pieces, such as pottery, other ceramic or metal components.
Saggar (Wikipedia)
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A saggar (also misspelled as sagger or segger) is a type of kiln furniture.
Dictionary.com: kiln definition
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a furnace or oven for burning, baking, or drying something, especially one for firing pottery, calcining limestone, or baking bricks.
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