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tray which is rotated with one hand by the potter as 
she builds up, or smooths, the pot which she is making. 
In Perak a saucer takes the place of a winnowing-tray, 
though a round block of wood rotating on -another, 
which has a central peg fitting loosely into a hole in 
the upper disc, is occasionally used instead, and forms 
the nearest known approach to the potter’s wheel. 
The most commonly manufactured articles of 
pottery are water-bottles, water-jars and cooking-pots, 
though incense-burners, steam-cookers, drinking-cups, 
small plates and other articles are also made. 
The shape of the water-bottle is nearly always based 
on the ordinary bottle-gourd which is still used as a 
water-vessel in many poor-class Malay houses, espe- 
cially up-country. The clay article, called an “ earth 
gourd ” by the Malays, may follow the shape of the 
fruit exactly, a gourd with either one or two bulges, 
or may have adornments or fittings, such as flutings 
or a foot, or the shape may be varied somewhat. A 
curiously-shaped water-bottle with a spout is, however, 
still made in Negri Sembilan and I have shown else- 
where that this is probably derived from the ancient 
Hindu kendi, a word which still persists in the Malay 
language as a name for a kettle- During the Ming 
dynasty, Chinese porcelain bottles of the same type 
were exported to the East Indies, but I think it pro- 
bable that these were manufactured to please the local 
taste and have not been able to obtain evidence that 
they were ordinarily in use in China. The Chinese 
have for many centuries been turning out goods 
adapted to meet the demands of their foreign cus- 
tomers and old Chinese plates with Arabic, or mock 
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