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<p>[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 4437928, member: 30"]I am not convinced this is antique. The base looks way to clean and white to have such age. Perhaps it's not really this clean and just looks that way in your photograph? </p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt this is a brush washer, does it look to have ever been used as such with paint or ink inside? There isn't enough room to hold enough fluid to wash a brush and the wider rim may make it tippy. </p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO, this looks more like a late 20th century student ceramics piece for a course project to combine wheel throwing with hand-built structure in a clay piece. I think it can definitely be used as a flower frog.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="antidiem, post: 4437928, member: 30"]I am not convinced this is antique. The base looks way to clean and white to have such age. Perhaps it's not really this clean and just looks that way in your photograph? I doubt this is a brush washer, does it look to have ever been used as such with paint or ink inside? There isn't enough room to hold enough fluid to wash a brush and the wider rim may make it tippy. IMHO, this looks more like a late 20th century student ceramics piece for a course project to combine wheel throwing with hand-built structure in a clay piece. I think it can definitely be used as a flower frog.[/QUOTE]
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