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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 304918, member: 45&quot;]Johnny&#039;s right...it&#039;s Mexican blackware, from Oaxaca.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s burnished, not glazed, so the discoloration on the bottom is from the firing, not from glaze running.&nbsp; It&#039;s a little hard to tell what happened, but my guess is there was either something touching the pig in those places while it was fired, or whoever touched the pig last had something strange on their fingers that affected the way the clay fired.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The bank is contemporary, made in the last 10-15 years or so.&nbsp; That&#039;s about when this particular style of decoration first seemed to appear on the market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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