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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3100530, member: 2844&quot;]Meerschaum is sepiolite, which is cream coloured. These religious scenes could indeed be carved from sepiolite.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pipe clay is kaolin, the same clay porcelain is made of, except when used for pipe making it usually wasn&#039;t fired to porcelain temperatures. It is more white than sepiolite:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=http%3A%2F%2Fin02.hostcontrol.com%2Fresources%2Fefa85137f87ae5%2F12e1f6c9ed.jpg&amp;sp=1606828892T420a31085ad0a5ed11039b04dc645c1ffec8233f5e42420303175e071941a844" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here in the Low Countries they used to make molded religious statues of pipe clay, but those are white and don&#039;t have the definition of these cream coloured carved scenes. They are also much older, Medieval.</p><p>The one below is was dug up in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. It is greyish from having been in the soil, but you can see the white kaolin here and there:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2015/7/30/0/b/6/0b661ce2-368b-11e5-91f7-e2a3fe488ea7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.catawiki.nl/l/2461303-middeleeuws-pijpaarde-beeld-van-de-heilige-barbera-24-cm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.catawiki.nl/l/2461303-middeleeuws-pijpaarde-beeld-van-de-heilige-barbera-24-cm" rel="nofollow">https://www.catawiki.nl/l/2461303-middeleeuws-pijpaarde-beeld-van-de-heilige-barbera-24-cm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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