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  2. 90-foot-long kiln — used to make iconic pottery 400 ... - AOL

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    Several of the 400-year-old kilns were identified as semi-inverted flame dragon kilns, the release said. This is a unique type of furnace with multiple chambers built in a long, skinny line up a ...

  3. Dragon kiln - Wikipedia

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    A dragon kiln (Chinese: 龍窯; pinyin: lóng yáo; Wade–Giles: lung-yao) or "climbing kiln", is a traditional Chinese form of kiln, used for Chinese ceramics, especially in southern China. It is long and thin, and relies on having a fairly steep slope, typically between 10° and 16°, [ 1 ] up which the kiln runs.

  4. Anagama kiln - Wikipedia

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    It is a version of the climbing dragon kiln of south China, whose further development was also copied, for example in breaking up the firing space into a series of chambers in the noborigama kiln. An anagama (a Japanese term meaning "cave kiln ") consists of a firing chamber with a firebox at one end and a flue at the other.

  5. Paul Chaleff - Wikipedia

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    Paul Chaleff (born 1947) [1] is an American ceramist and professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Hofstra University. [2] He is considered a pioneer of the revival of wood-fired ceramics in the US and credited as one of the first to use wood-burning dragon kilns in the style of the anagama tradition.

  6. Osborne Park, Western Australia - Wikipedia

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    Osborne Park was named after William Osborne, a butcher who owned an abattoir and land on Wanneroo Road and who was elected to the Perth Road Board (the City of Stirling's predecessor), in 1875. [2] Osborne Park was part of an original crown grant of 2,440 hectares (6,020 acres) given to T. R. C. Walters in 1840. After the death of Walters in ...

  7. Jian ware - Wikipedia

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    It would have been fired, probably with several thousand other pieces, each in its own stackable saggar, in a single-firing in a large dragon kiln. One such kiln, built on the side of a steep hill, was almost 150 metres in length, although most Jian dragon kilns were shorter than 100 metres.

  8. Swatow ware - Wikipedia

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    The pieces very often have grit from the kiln on the glaze at the foot, indicating rather careless making. [13] They were fired in dragon kilns of various designs, and the numerous potteries were small concerns, far removed from the industrial scale of Jingdezhen. Pieces were mostly wheel-thrown, but moulds were also used to form pieces.

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