A mate of mine gave me a pot........

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Re: A mate of mine gave me a pot........

Post by Leigh Taafe »

Thanks K - you have such a way with words - makes you think about things in a different light.

Your words remind me that bonsai is about art - not about right or wrong.
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Re: A mate of mine gave me a pot........

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Yes, thanks K, it's a lovely story but my blood runs cold in sympathy for the slaves who were perhaps tossed into subsequent kilns before the ancient potters twigged to the idea of reduction firing....

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Re: A mate of mine gave me a pot........

Post by Kunzea »

Pat
My recollection of the stories was that it was pigs that were thrown in, but gruesome none the less.
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