Nov. 18, 2010

Hi All (Hi Carol!),

A friend and I were discussing ceramics, and she reminded me of something.

Often on the undersides of dishes are concentric lines that were molded into the vessel.  They are usually inside the footring, but also occur outside of them.

For us, they help to match up fragments of different vessels.

But, she was asking, was there any specific original purpose to these?  

S. Walter