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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2009  
         
  Article:   CONTRASTING RECIPES FOR THE KILN FURNITURES OF THE FAIENCE MANUFACTURE GRANGES-LE-BOURG (HAUTE SAÔNE, FRANCE).

Authors:  MARINO MAGGETTI, DENIS MORIN, VINCENT SERNEELS, CHRISTOPH NEURURER.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Thirty-nine samples of kiln furniture or technical ceramic (firing plate, saggars, spacers, props, wads) and six samples of building ceramics (bricks, tiles) from the manufacture of Granges-le-Bourg were studied by optical microscopy, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy. The kiln furniture is chemically inhomogeneous and belong to a CaO- + MgO-poor (firing plate, saggars) or a CaO- + MgO-rich (props, spacers, wads) group. Bricks and tiles pertain to the first group, which was manufactured using decarbonatized top layers of local Triassic dolomitic marls. For the second group, the deeper layers were used. Plate and saggars are covered with a tin oxide opacified glassy coating with no significant reaction zone to the body.

Key words: Granges-le-Bourg, kiln furniture, high-Mg faience, Triassic marl, dolomite.
 
         
     
         
         
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