Re: help with vase

Laval Hunsucker <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:30:38 +0200
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> . . . because the search only finds images with the same general form and
texture, . . .

But what about the metadata  ( given that it exists, underwater,
accompanying the image, though very likely in this particular case it
doesn't ) ?  I'm by no means an expert on these technical matters, but I
thought  ( erroneously ? )  that also where possible the metadata played a
role behind the scenes in such an image search .

- Laval Hunsucker
  Breukelen, Nederland



On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:19 PM Ralph Hancock <[email protected]>
wrote:

I'm pretty sure it's this one, which is the only image on the Pinterest
> page that is in the form of a line engraving rather than a photograph:
>
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.co.uk%2Fpin%2F444589794457018267%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C7f11895a21594b3eb0da08d7599afcaa%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637076394508667416&amp;sdata=UItoJxk3wqGSxjJF1Sd6rNsXx0Yje%2FcaTZ6WA8voTEU%3D&amp;reserved=0
>
> Concerning June's suggestion, an image search fails here because the search
> only finds images with the same general form and texture, that is, circular
> line drawings or engravings. If the vase had survived into the age of
> photography and had been photographed and the picture published on the web,
> no image search could find it from the starting data.
>
> RH
>