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Dear Barbara,
Greetings from Singapore. Your website is most interesting, and will
certainly visit it periodically. From the photo, it appears that the
pattern is one of those generic geometric block printed patterns.
Maybe a larger picture will help (apologies, my eyes are not as good
as it use to be) to ascertain if it is indeed block printed.
There is also a remote chance that its not a generic pattern but a
derivation of the Sanskrit text "Om". However, at first glance I do
not think so. Again a larger photo will be great.
We have quite a few of these over here, and I will try to find some
time to go through the store and look for them. We had always thought
that the unglazed "diamond" is the setter between the bowls during
firing. Do you have a picture of the underside of this particular
bowl? Setter or spur marks should be a tell tale sign.
My apologies if you are already familiar with the above, but I hope
this is of some assistance. We are still trying to make some sense of
these tens of thousands of late Imperial Chinese and Republican era ceramics.
Warm Wishes,
Chen.
Fort Serapong Archaeological Research Project
Sentosa Singapore
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At 01:46 AM 2/7/2007, you wrote:
>Dear Fellow HistArch'ers,
>
>At Stanford, we are continuing our work on the Market Street
>Chinatown archaeological collection, excavated in 1985-1988 during a
>major redevelopment project in downtown San Jose, California. This
>winter, students enrolled in the Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
>class are learning analysis skills by cataloging and analyzing
>materials from the collection. Each week, a student in the class
>will be posting an update on the research at our project website:
>www.stanford.edu/~cengel/SJCT.
>
>We are particularly hoping that HistArch'ers might be able to help
>us in identifying some of the artifacts from the collection. In the
>first project update, we have posted images of two porcelain bowls
>with unusual decorations.
>
>http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/SJCT/2007/01/28-week/
>
>Can any of you help us identify these patterns?
>
>Many thanks
>Barb Voss
>
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>Barbara L. Voss, Assistant Professor
>Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
>Main Quad Bldg 110
>Stanford University
>Stanford, California 94305-2145
>phone: 650-725-6884
>fax: 650-725-0605
>email: [log in to unmask]
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