Greetings once again from Stacey. The lab has been quite busy this past autumn quarter. Erica Simmons, a senior Archaeology major who worked on the Market Street Chinatown Project last year, has been volunteering her spare time in the lab since September. She has been a great help, and in just a short time, finished cataloguing a large portion of the glass from Feature 18. In the meantime, I have continued to catalogue buttons from the entire assemblage.

This month I also had the opportunity to catalogue and photograph the artifacts on display at History San J�se. History San J�se�s Melissa Johnson and Monica Tucker were extremely helpful in assisting me with this task. They were kind enough to lend me the museum�s photography studio, where the photograph to the left was taken.

This week�s featured artifact is currently on display at History San J�se�s reconstructed Ng Shing Gung temple. According to the Asian American Comparative Collection�s (AACC) terminologies, this vessel is a �liquor warmer.� It could have also been used as a teapot or sauce-serving bottle. Its decoration is commonly known as �Sweet Pea,� but is also sometimes called �Plant with Central Flower,� �Shanghai Ware,� or �Simple Flower.�