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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 18591, member: 44&quot;]I know this isn&#039;t antique, but like to know opinions as to whether majolica or not. It was suggested to me that it may be majolica, but my feeling is it isn&#039;t. It dates definitely to before 1960 to possibly the 1940s (?). </p><p><br /></p><p>15¾&quot; diameter, heavy. White with fruit, vines and foliage. The fruit seems to be grapes, peaches, cherries and possibly black olives? on the lower right. Each fruit, vine and foliage is very very slightly raised or more aptly described has being ridged with the ridges outlined. Marked in red on the back &quot;1701 Hand.Painted Italy.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, are those 2 black olives on the lower right? The leaves don&#039;t look quite right for olive tree leaves but they don&#039;t seem to be grapes or black cherries.</p><p><br /></p><p>TIA.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><br /></p><p>Gee, I wanted to have only 1 large pic with the rest thumbnails that enlarge on clicking. This would be done by the &quot;Upload a File&quot; button. That button would not work this morning for me. I ended up having to upload these image files to one of my websites and then use the &quot;Image&quot; button on the reply tool bar.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/china/ItalyFruitPlatter-sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Close-up:</p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/china/ItalyFruitPlatterCUp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/china/ItalyFruitPlatterBk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~filearchives/china/ItalyFruitPlatterMk.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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