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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ce BCA, post: 4298611, member: 18716&quot;]As [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] says, the search was for porcelain, but the images are all of pottery.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to mislabel something in error, or get the meta data wrong on a web post.&nbsp; Bing/Google doesn&#039;t know whether the item is pottery or porcelain, it just returns results which are labelled as such.&nbsp; Also the ai back end correction on search engines means they will often assume you meant &#039;pottery&#039; even if you search porcelain in cases like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lita&#039;s porcelain page just doesn&#039;t split things out, so she has mixed Satsuma, Kutani, pottery and porcelain and modern ceramics which are neither all on the same page.&nbsp; She certainly knows the difference herself and I guess she assumes people using her info will also know the difference, it&#039;s very easy to tell the difference between earthenware and porcelain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s LAPADA&#039;s basic intro to Satsuma, specifically of interest for you is the paragraph headed &#039;Earthenware&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://lapada.org/guides/guide-to-collecting-japanese-satsuma-ware/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://lapada.org/guides/guide-to-collecting-japanese-satsuma-ware/" rel="nofollow">https://lapada.org/guides/guide-to-collecting-japanese-satsuma-ware/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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