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Porcelain Labware: Evaporating Dishes, Crucibles, Funnels and Streak Plates
Hard porcelain stands strong heat and most chemicals, so the laboratory's dishes, crucibles and filter funnels are made of it; left unglazed, its white biscuit is the streak plate for testing minerals. Form the pieces, give them a light first firing, dip them in ground-felspar glaze, and fire them hard in saggers, as Andrew Ure (1839) describes for Sèvres.
The picture: porcelain evaporating dishes in three sizes, glazed, with pouring lips.
Osezingeni eliphezulu
Weeks with drying and two firings
Imiyalelo
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Form the pieces
Form the pieces
Throw shallow round dishes with a lip and small lidded crucibles on the wheel. For a Büchner funnel throw a cylinder with a flat floor, pierce the floor with many small holes and add a stem. Roll a slab and cut it into small tiles for streak plates.
Izinto zokwakha zalesi sinyathelo:
Ubumba be-porcelain5 kgAmathuluzi adingekayo:
Isondo lombumbi
Isigingqi senhlama
Isethi yamathuluzi obumba
Irula2
2
Dry very slowly
Dry very slowly
Ure: dry them very slowly; a little hurry spoils them.
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3
Light first firing
Light first firing
Fire them gently so they keep their shape but become strong enough to handle and be dipped in water.
Izinto zokwakha zalesi sinyathelo:
Izinkuni1 as requiredAmathuluzi adingekayo:
Isithando
Amagilavu Amelana Nokushisa4
4
Felspar glaze
Felspar glaze
Grind felspar very fine, stir it with water and a little vinegar to a thin pap. Dip each dish, crucible and funnel for an instant; the porous body draws the glaze on. Wipe the glaze off the feet. Leave the streak-plate tiles unglazed.
Izinto zokwakha zalesi sinyathelo:
Ucezu lwe-feldspar0.5 kg
Amanzi2 amalitha
Uviniga0.05 ilithaAmathuluzi adingekayo:
Umgqulo
Isisefo Senetha Ecolekile
Umphongolo omkhulu wokhuni
Imaski Yothuli5
5
Set in saggers
Set in saggers
Set every piece in its own sagger on a flat, sand-dusted base so it cannot stick or sag out of shape; small pieces may share a base if they do not touch.
Izinto zokwakha zalesi sinyathelo:
Isihlabathi Esicolekile1 kgAmathuluzi adingekayo:
Ibhokisi lobumba lomlilo6
6
The hard firing
The hard firing
Raise the fire slowly for about 15 hours to a cherry red, then fire hard until the kiln glows white inside, drawing trial pieces to judge when the glaze is smooth. Cool slowly over days.
Izinto zokwakha zalesi sinyathelo:
Izinkuni1 as requiredAmathuluzi adingekayo:
IsithandoAmagilavu Amelana Nokushisa7
7
Ure's firing, hour by hour
Ure's firing, hour by hour
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Limits
Limits
The firings, glaze and saggers are Ure's account of Sèvres; the forms of the four wares are ours. A full porcelain firing needs a kiln that reaches white heat.
Izinto
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- 1 as requiredIsibambeli
- 0.5 kgIsibambeli
- 2 amalithaIsibambeli
- 0.05 ilithaIsibambeli
- Isibambeli
Amathuluzi Adingekayo
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