Large pot project

Here are a couple pictures of my large ceramic pot, pseudo-Minoan:

On Wednesday we loaded all but one of the large pots made by our class. On Thursday, the firing was begun with wood fires:

 View of the upper cones through a peep-hole:

 While I was visiting over my lunch hour, they switched to burning cooking oil. It's a fussy process, trying to control the oil stream by hand:

 You want to have a slow steady stream from each pipe there:

 Unloading this afternoon!