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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 139838, member: 59"]Absolutely not Native American. Middle Eastern would be my first guess - but even that is a total WAG, because what is marked on the piece doesn't resemble any Middle Eastern marks with which I am familiar. I think it would be very odd for them to use non-Arabic letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the auctioneer meant "chased" - a method of creating the design on the surface.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 139838, member: 59"]Absolutely not Native American. Middle Eastern would be my first guess - but even that is a total WAG, because what is marked on the piece doesn't resemble any Middle Eastern marks with which I am familiar. I think it would be very odd for them to use non-Arabic letters. Perhaps the auctioneer meant "chased" - a method of creating the design on the surface.[/QUOTE]
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