The Plumie pulled out his sketch plate.

Miscellaneous Steel - blocking, sketch plates, gussets and reinforcing plates as required.

Mr. McKewen, who lives in Montpelier, Vt., has designed a transparent sketch plate with a handle and a perpendicular brace on one side.

Royal Tichelaar Makkum’s artisans cringed when they were told to fire her 1997 B-Set pottery (right) at too high a temperature, while Nymphenburg’s worried that her 2004 Sketches plates looked half-finished.