Description:Pottery factory interior with a view inside an enamel kiln placed with decorated wares. No saggars are being used in this firing.
Decorated pottery was coal fired in an enamel (or muffle) kiln.
Enamel kilns are much smaller than bottle ovens, and because the whole inside of the kiln is made from refractory material do not need saggars.
The firing temperature is much lower and therefore the firing time is much shorter than the intial firing to harden the ware.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.