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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;say_it_slowly, post: 313282, member: 50&quot;]I really love that the link is to Mount Vernon<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />. Up until DH got sick I volunteered there in the Archaeology department once a week for years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The good thing about archaeology is that you&#039;re dealing with honestly old things most of the time rather than modern repros. The plate in the link is a different pattern than Canton being more of a Nanking style but I know the purpose is to look at the base. Much of Washington&#039;s china I know had a Fitzhugh border but there are many types there. I actually started collecting a particular Chinese pattern because of a pattern that was excavated and I was captivated by it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, there is a Canton platter on the Gotheborg discussion board with this same striated base that at least the contributors seem to think is period. Not sure that they&#039;d want it linked here though.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I did want to offer if anyone wanted to nose around are a couple links to sites. The first is the Reeves Collection of Chinese porcelains from Washington &amp; Lee University, searchable.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://wlureevescenter.pastperfectonline.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wlureevescenter.pastperfectonline.com/" rel="nofollow">http://wlureevescenter.pastperfectonline.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And to some of the archaeology collection from Mount Vernon, this is a sherd where you can see the base.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://mountvernonmidden.org/data/objects2.html?rID=2634" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mountvernonmidden.org/data/objects2.html?rID=2634" rel="nofollow">http://mountvernonmidden.org/data/objects2.html?rID=2634</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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