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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 299103, member: 2844&quot;]Agree.</p><p>It could be from Iznik, Turkey.</p><p>Here is an Iranian one with an even more bulbous top than the one Bev showed:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F236x%2Fbd%2F7d%2F40%2Fbd7d400fe95f45c4ccfd2acbd3365db2--bottle-vase-blue-and-white.jpg&amp;sp=e0d3f54a15dff452bd64dd94c00528fd" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Blue and white ceramics are originally Middle Eastern. The style was introduced to China by Persian traders (Silk Road). The Chinese imported cobalt from Iran to re-create Islamic pottery styles in porcelain. The Dutch didn&#039;t have kaolin earth, so no porcelain, they copied Chinese styles in pottery, in Delft and other places.</p><p>Mexican Talavera was started potters from Talavera, Spain. It is based on Spanish Talavera ware, which was originally Moorish pottery, which again was a geographic and stylisic extension of pottery from the Middle East.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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