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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Potteryplease, post: 10793265, member: 16407&quot;]They looks authentic to me. Super great finds!</p><p><br /></p><p>They do not look old to me. &#039;Contemporary&#039;, I&#039;d call them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing I&#039;d be most interested to determine, if I were you, is if they are merely &#039;painted by&#039; the artists who&#039;ve signed, of if they were hand-made by those artists. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hand-made pots can be determined by irregularities in shape. Try gently spinning them and see if the shape of the pot is symmetrical. If perfectly so, you have a manufactured &#039;blank&#039; that was subsequently painted and then likely fired in an electric kiln--a quicker and more efficient process.</p><p><br /></p><p>The more desirable (and valuable) pots are, on the other hand, ones that are hand-processed: hand-shaped clay built up through the coil method, hand painted, and then fired in a traditional outdoor kiln.&nbsp; That process takes a lot more time and skill, hence the increased desirability.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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