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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4261961, member: 2844"]Snake eye is not a type of pottery, it only refers to the shape of the base. It is a base with a sunken circular bit in the middle, like the pupil of an eye. It is just a Japanese technical term.</p><p>So in the case of your bowl it has what would be called a snake eye base or foot in Japanese terms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 4261961, member: 2844"]Snake eye is not a type of pottery, it only refers to the shape of the base. It is a base with a sunken circular bit in the middle, like the pupil of an eye. It is just a Japanese technical term. So in the case of your bowl it has what would be called a snake eye base or foot in Japanese terms.[/QUOTE]
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