A Soapstone Bowl

[OntarioArch]

Any opinions about this bowl's origin? Could it be ancient? The nearly uniform markings on the interior side walls do not look right to me; look modern.

 

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[Tdog]

I can't blow up the pic. so I can't tell a lot about the inside markings/stamps. I agree that they look rather uniform. I've never seen one like this esp. with the inside stamped.

 

[OntarioArch]

I can't blow up the pic. so I can't tell a lot about the inside markings/stamps. I agree that they look rather uniform. I've never seen one like this esp. with the inside stamped.

bigger pic added...

 

[Tdog]

I'm not sure what the purpose is of the inside stamping.

 

[sandchip]

If it's steatite (soapstone) then it's not stamped, but carved out with a chisel or hand pick. Looks modern to me, compared to all the other soapstone bowls that I've seen.

 

[Tdog]

If it's steatite (soapstone) then it's not stamped, but carved out with a chisel or hand pick.

Duh on me! You're right, I lost sight of that as I was responding.

 

[sandchip]

Duh on me! You're right, I lost sight of that as I was responding.

Nothin' but a thang, brother!

 

[yakker]

Yeah no. Here's a pic of a very warn + degraded partial I found sticking out of a muddy creek-bank in Virginia back in the early teens. I was in native soapstone territory w/ a big quarry a couple miles away-if that.