Need help identifying a ceramic maker's mark.

[Lucian]

The OP is here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9545322&mesg_id=9545322

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[sufrommich]

1. Can you make the picture any bigger? nt

[Lucian]

2. I can try.

Here's the whole image:

[Vinca]

3. Can you make out any of the letters?

[Lucian]

5. Yeah...

it looks like "DIOST" on the bottom left of the image, but I'm not positive about the "D".

[sufrommich]

4. I played with the contrast of your picture to try and get a better

look. I't still doesn't look familiar to me. Sorry,hope you can find someone here who knows what it is.

[Lucian]

6. Thanks for trying!

I appreciate it!

[Vinca]

7. This is a real puzzler. What kind of item did it come from?

Is there any sort of symbol - or part of a symbol - beneath the letters?

[sufrommich]

8. I was wondering the same thing. Also, the groove above the

lettering looks like a strange placement of a rim of some sort.

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Have had some luck in the past using foil, paper and pencil, if it's an impress mark

Press foil smoothly over the mark, then, keeping the foil on the pottery, use paper and side of pencil to get a closer look at the impress as shown by the foil. Using the foil helps protect the mark, and helps to create a picture you an then turn many ways, hold over a light source, and hopefully, get a better read on it.