The first one looks like an insert to a butter dish - you'd put butter 
and crushed ice to keep it firm - the ice would melt and drain through 
the holes to the dish underneath.  Hard to be sure though.

Mike

On 6/3/2011 4:39 PM, Barbara Voss wrote:
> Dear Hist Arch'ers,
>
> My students and I have come across some unusual ceramics from the Market
> Street Chinatown in San Jose; we've been unable to identify them with the
> standard references. Perhaps some of you have seen them elsewhere?
>
> Pictures are posted on our project website:
> http://marketstreet.stanford.edu/
>
> They are:
> 1. A perforated, oval-shaped whiteware dish
> 2. A porcelaneous stoneware rice bowl with an unusual and very stylized
> underglaze motif
> 3. An eight-sided porcelain cup with a floral overglaze motif.
>
> Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated - thanks so much
>
> --Barb
>
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