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November 2004 Anagama Wood & Soda Firing

Cone 11 Porcelain & Stoneware

30+ hour firing; 4 days of cooling

Glazes used:  Various Crystal & Matt Glazes, Tea Dust Temmoku (Tenmoku),

Carbon Trap Shino, Crab Crawl Shino, Flashing Slips

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Loading of Front and Back of the kiln

Images of the inside of the kiln through the stoke hole

You can see on the far right image where the shelf collapsed and the porcelain cups supported it

Ernest Miller (ernestmiller.com) lending a very helpful hand

Images from the inside of the kiln from the side stoke hole where we placed soda.

Firebox & front of kiln after 4 days of cooling

Back of kiln after 4 days of cooling (soda fired)

The kiln at dawn

Entire load of work from firing