# Is there a name for this decorative design? (on a piece of pottery)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 19, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-decorative-design-on-a-piece-of-pottery/464290 "2008-09-19T11:46:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-decorative-design-on-a-piece-of-pottery/464290/1 "2008-09-19T11:46:58Z")

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I picked up a rather nice little Staffordshire bowl in a charity shop yesterday - it has a design featuring leaves and flower buds of some kind - and I’m reasonably sure I’ve seen the design before given a specific name (not ‘Acanthus’ or ‘Trefoil’, but something along those lines).

[This](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/stuff/bowl.jpg) is the piece in question - any suggestions? I think it’s a question of the identity of those large flower buds around the middle.

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**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-decorative-design-on-a-piece-of-pottery/464290/2 "2008-09-19T13:57:21Z")

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It’s a simplified lotus motif, I think.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-decorative-design-on-a-piece-of-pottery/464290/3 "2008-09-19T20:10:53Z")

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Thanks - I was thinking ‘lotus’, but couldn’t confirm it with an image search.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-decorative-design-on-a-piece-of-pottery/464290/4 "2008-09-19T21:40:47Z")

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If you take the picture to a FootLocker store, they’ll say, “Adidas.”

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-name-for-this-decorative-design-on-a-piece-of-pottery/464290/5 "2008-09-19T23:39:59Z")

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Looks like corn to me.