Saggar atmosphere, or concentrate the effects of salts, metal oxides and other materials on the surface of their ware. Some pots may be carefully prepared for saggar firing. One method creates a smooth surface covered with clay slip, terra sigillata, which responds particularly well to the saggar technique. This slip covering may be burnished to achieve a gloss. Prepared pots are nestled into saggars filled with beds of combustible materials, such as sawdust, less combustible organic materials, salts and metals. These materials ignite or fume during firing, leaving the pot buried in layers of fine ash. Ware produced in filled saggars
Jainti Dass Saggar and town councillor of Dundee. In 1919, Saggar moved to the United Kingdom to study medicine at the University of St Andrews and completed postgraduate diplomas in ophthalmology, public health, and surgery. He served as chairman of the public libraries committee and was a member of the committee of the local branch of the Nursery Schools Association of Great Britain. He was the only Indian doctor in Dundee in the 1920s. In 1936, Saggar was elected as a Labour Party councillor in Dundee, making him the first non-white local authority councillor in Scotland. In 1939, he was instrumental in the