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added allowed alumina applied ball clay biscuit firing bodies and glazes buff coloured casting slip ceramic art ceramic materials ceramic sculpture chamotte China clay clay or body clays and bodies coating coiling coloured slip Cone contraction cornish stone decorative Deflocculation drying and firing earthenware enamel engobe Exeter Museum felspar figurine fireclay fluxes fuse give glaze firing glazes and colours grams 70 grams grog harden heat high temperatures hollow kaolin kiln lead glazes Leadless liquid lower temperature matting agent method mixed natural clays opaque oxide painting Parian Pearse piece mould plaster mould plastic clay porcelain porcelain figure possible pottery powder press or cast produced Pyroscopes Refractory salt-glaze seam marks shapes shell shrinkage silica slab sodium silicate Staffordshire figure stilts Stoke-on-Trent stoneware stoneware and porcelain stuck suitable surface technique temperature glaze terra-cotta thickness undercutting unglazed usually vitrification walls wares William Ruscoe Yellow