Symbol?

[DemonicCupcake]

Does anybody know of a symbol that looks like this? Thank you! (Attached)

[Likely Guy]

No, but my pareidolia kicked in and it looks like a cheery face.

Might I ask the reason why you ask?

[DemonicCupcake]

It was a symbol on the bottom of an old piece of pottery, struck me as strange.

[ShadowSot]

It was a symbol on the bottom of an old piece of pottery, struck me as strange.

How old?

DO you have a picture?

Where did you find it?

[Likely Guy]

It was a symbol on the bottom of an old piece of pottery, struck me as strange.

Then it could upside down or either ways sideways.

Shadowsot's right, context is everything.

[DemonicCupcake]

I do not have it. I was at an antique shop. I chose buying a cheaper cup and saucer set over it (I collect china, and my funds were a few dollars short of purchasing it) It APPEARED to be an older piece, but I can not be certain. It was a bowl, probably about 10 inches across. Fairly certain it was milk glass. I love researching symbols and whatnot, so I pulled a pen and a napkin out of my purse and scribbled it down.

[ShadowSot]

If it's glass, it's probably not terribly old. Other than that, with it being at an antique store there's a lot of context that'll be missing, so without knowing much about glassware I can't help much.

Might want to see if you can find a forum for antiquities or glass dealers and see what you can find.

Might want to look up the major milk glass dealers and see what they use as a label.

[coolguy]

That's cool that is on the bottom of pottery.can u take a pic of it

[Emma_Acid]

A potters' mark. Nothing else.

[AMARUKHAN111666888]

Does anybody know of a symbol that looks like this? Thank you! (Attached)

that is one of the four worlds in the andes culture, if you draw the other 3 you get the The chakana cross.

Edited July 26, 2013 by AMARUKHAN111666888

[Himawari69]

Kind of looks like hitlers symbol

Edited July 27, 2013 by Himawari69

[CHRIS_UK]

As far as i'm aware they use/used marks as date references in Europe for pottery, after a quick search on google the closest i can find to that is this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1&rlz=1W4CHBA_enGB542&biw=1280&bih=855&hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=american+pottery+symbols&oq=american+pottery+symbols&gs_l=img.3..0i5.3419.7535.0.10537.24.24.0.0.0.0.113.2127.21j3.24.0.crnk_timecombined...0...1.1.22.img..0.24.2124.oTVqvlGjBeI#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Alk26InQlHwoHM%3A%3B-iIKh2awdp_hiM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fnavajopeople.org%252Fimages%252Fsymbolism.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fnavajopeople.org%252Fnavajo-pottery.htm%3B300%3B386

To be honest you should do some research yourself see what you can find, would be interesting to know exactly what it is.

[Rlyeh]

Kind of looks like hitlers symbol

Hitlers symbol...

[Oniomancer]

That's a pretty common design motif in Native American art, especially southwest pottery. It's often called a step pattern and does appear to have some minor symbolism varying from tribe to tribe:

http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/american/parr.pdf

[+DieChecker]

Looks like a stylized T and L to me. With the T on top and the L to the bottom left.

[jules99]

Hi;

What colour is your bowl? Milk glass is usually opaque and Ive seen it in white, pale blue, pale green and swirled combinations of these colours. Its not particularly fine, usually cast/molded, mass production glass though some are nice quality. Fenton, a US manufacturer usually marked their wares with their name in an oval.

Looking at the mark youve provided I would suspect the bowl may not be milk glass...most of it is unmarked..

Cheers and good luck