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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 8169335, member: 10944"]That is a nice one! As to where they get the shards I heard somewhere recently some of it is collected from the old kiln sites. Anything that came out of the kiln damaged (or when from an imperial kiln just slightly imperfect even) they would smash it. So every kiln site has large areas of shards now buried beneath the surface. These waste pits are actually how much of the academic research is accomplished on when and where things were made. Turns out that a huge amount of the worlds information on Chinese ceramics was wrong until real academic archaeological digs were finally done in China on these sites to correct the record.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 8169335, member: 10944"]That is a nice one! As to where they get the shards I heard somewhere recently some of it is collected from the old kiln sites. Anything that came out of the kiln damaged (or when from an imperial kiln just slightly imperfect even) they would smash it. So every kiln site has large areas of shards now buried beneath the surface. These waste pits are actually how much of the academic research is accomplished on when and where things were made. Turns out that a huge amount of the worlds information on Chinese ceramics was wrong until real academic archaeological digs were finally done in China on these sites to correct the record.[/QUOTE]
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