Crossword-Solution: SAGGARS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Acton has found the containing bowls (saggars) and kiln-props used to protect and support the glazed vessels during the process of firing, and as the drip of the glaze is visible on the sides of the props and the bottoms of the saggars, he infers that the Holt potters manufactured glazed ware with success.

The very architecture of the streets shows that environment has done naught for it: ragged brickwork, walls finished anyhow with saggars and slag; narrow uneven alleys leading to higgledy-piggledy workshops and kilns; cottages transformed into factories and factories into cottages, clumsily, hastily, because nothing matters so long as "it will do;" everywhere something forced to fulfil, badly, the function of something else; in brief, the reign of the slovenly makeshift, shameless, filthy, and picturesque.

There's the biscuit oven, but we can't inspect it because it's just being drawn.' He pointed to the oven near by, in whose dark interior the forms of men, naked to the waist, could dimly be seen struggling with the weight of saggars[2] full of ware.

The inertness and pallor of the saggars seemed to be the physical result of their fiery trial, and one wondered that they should have survived the trial.

The Chinese used heavy saggars, and specimens of these with portions of melted pots still adhering to them attest the enormous heats to which they frequently attained.