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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9569130, member: 8267&quot;]In the case of the cup with the silver base (that [USER=17270]@Roaring20s[/USER] provided a link to), it might be a marriage of a pre-columbian pottery cup with a 19th century silver addition. (Just a suggestion.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=78526]@Doug Ketcher[/USER]&#039;s little cup does resemble traditional pottery cups from Ecuador. There are many examples of similar cups (called &quot;mucawa&quot;) made with pottery pedestals -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]459497[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/pottery/pre-colombian-ecuadorian-pottery-bowl-mucawa-drinking-vessel-geometric-motifs/id-f_24103442/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/pottery/pre-colombian-ecuadorian-pottery-bowl-mucawa-drinking-vessel-geometric-motifs/id-f_24103442/" rel="nofollow">https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/pottery/pre-colombian-ecuadorian-pottery-bowl-mucawa-drinking-vessel-geometric-motifs/id-f_24103442/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I was puzzled by the shallow foot carefully carved on the bottom of Doug&#039;s cup. It is not something I would expect to see on an ethnographic/archeological vessel. But here is an undecorated cup/bowl that shows a similar &quot;short ring base&quot; -</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.npcollectables.org.uk/a1-gallery3.asp?roomID=481&amp;pictureID=124001" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.npcollectables.org.uk/a1-gallery3.asp?roomID=481&amp;pictureID=124001" rel="nofollow">https://www.npcollectables.org.uk/a1-gallery3.asp?roomID=481&amp;pictureID=124001</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It may be, in both cases, that a pottery pedestal was once present and has been lost or modified.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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