The top piece looks like an insert for a soap dish.  Trenton, NJ was
cranking soap dishes out from the late 19th through the mid 20th centuries.


Bill Liebeknecht
Hunter Research, Inc.

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Subject: help identifying historic ceramics?

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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