So tightly packed were the fragments ofsaggers and pottery vessels that they appeared to have been deliberately laid down as metaling for the colonial street.
The tankard saggers have three such holes plus a vertical slit which extends from the top to the bottom to house the handles, but it is not known whether the wide and shallow example described above would have possessed this feature.
Without knowing the type of kilns used it is impossible to determine how the saggers were employed.
The above reasoning seemed to link the saggers with brown salt-glazed stonewares rather than with products in the Rhenish tradition, which would have been the other obvious possibility.
Mr. Maloney is of the opinion that saggers could just as usefully have served a "groundhog" kiln where they would have enabled the pots to be stacked up to four in height.
The Park Service Yorktown collection includes sections through three saggers of different sizes, one for holding quart tankards (fig.
Mr. Maloney approximately 13 hours to burn them, although at Yorktown the use of saggers may have necessitated prolonged "soaking" of up to 24 hours or more.
It is the duty of the workmen belonging to the glaze kiln to make the saggers during the intervals of their work; or if there be a relay of hands, the man who is not firing makes the saggers.
In this operation saggers are used, in which the pieces and their supports are fired.
The saggers are made of the plastic or potter's clay of Abondant, to which about a third part of cement of broken saggershas been added.
The lower saggers contain the cream-coloured articles, in which the glaze is softer than that which covers the blue printed ware; this being always placed in the intervals between the furnaces, and in the uppermost saggers of the columns.
It is obvious that the kiln and the saggers must be composed of a very refractory clay, in order to resist such a fire.
The saggers are piled up first in the space between each of the upright furnaces, till they rise to the top of the flues.
The saggers containing the pieces thus arranged, are piled up in the kiln over each other, in the columnar form, till the whole space be occupied; leaving very moderate intervals between the columns to favour the draught of the fires.
The saggers are coated with the salt glaze already described.
And presently one of the Hercules's picked him up, and held him for a moment within the portal of the torrid kiln, and he gazed at the high curved walls, like the walls of a gigantic tomb, and at the yellow saggers that held the ware.
The ovens are, however, smaller, and the saggers cannot be packed so closely with the different articles, as every piece has to be isolated, otherwise the glaze in melting would cause them to stick together.
Jack Saggers was the hero of the party; or perhaps he might be more appropriately termed the "great gun," and was invariably voted to the chair.
Mrs. Saggers has her celebrated palpitations of the heart, for the most part, on Saturday nights.
Nor is it to be expected that Mrs. Saggers will prove herself immortal.
The old saggers are then broken up; the clay in them ground and sifted; and after being moistened again and mixed with fresh clay other saggers are modeled.
This time, however, it is a more difficult matter to pack it into the saggers since it must neither touch the sides of the sagger nor come in contact with any other piece.
For the glazed china we generally use glost saggers that have been covered on the inner side with a coating of enamel.
Not only do these men draw the ware, but they also empty it from the saggers as well as put it into the baskets in which it is carried back to the factory and inspected, further decorated, or packed for shipping.
After the ware has been brought here in baskets it is very carefully packed in the saggers, and the saggers in turn packed in these great brick ovens.
But it must take forever to pack all the saggersinto the kiln," declared Theo as he viewed in consternation the interior of one of the waiting ovens.
Do they wait until the saggers and their contents are cold before they take them out?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saggers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
