An old postcard in the Four des Casseaux museum (Musée du Four des Casseaux) on Rue Donzelot in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, shows a photograph by Paul Colmar: factory workers packing the kiln for the second firing. The heavy clay moulds (saggers, French gazettes), each containing a porcelain blank, were stacked metres high in the large kiln. Men, some of them bare-chested, lift the saggers upwards via a wooden ladder. Columns of saggers reach up to the brick vault of the kiln. The note "Photothèque Paul Colmar" appears at the bottom right. Depending on the type of porcel

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8569 x 5713 px | 72.6 x 48.4 cm | 28.6 x 19 inches | 300dpi

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12 June 2025

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Rue Donzelot, Limoges, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

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