raised-pies

Updated: May 9, 2025

And when you found that each of those pillars was a pile of ingeniously made vessels of coarse clay called Saggers looking, when separate, like raised-pies for the table of the mighty Giant Blunderbore, and now all full of various articles of pottery ranged in them in baking order, the bottom of each vessel serving for the cover of the one below, and the whole Kiln rapidly filling with these, tier upon tier, until the last workman should have barely room to crawl out, before the closing of the jagged aperture in the wall and the kindling of the gradual fire; did you not stand amazed to think that all the year round these dread chambers are heating, white hot and cooling and filling and emptying and being bricked up and broken open humanly speaking, for ever and ever?

Charles Dickens - Reprinted Pieces