UP FOR AUCTION--FROM AN HIGH END ESTATE-AN EARLY 1900'S ARTS & CRAFTS VASE WITH AN UNDISCERNABLE MARK. OUR FAMILY MEMBER LEFT NO INFO ON THIS PIECE BUT THE ESTATE APPRAISER PROVIDED THIS INFO ON THIS UNIQUE VASE
--THE INSIDE AND THE BOTTOM ARE BOTH UNGLAZED.
THE MARK WAS APPLIED BY HAND DURING THE FIRING PROCESS AND IT IS NOT AN IMPRESSED MARK AS TYPICAL OF THE MORE FAMOUS ARTS AND CRAFT POTTERY STUDIOS. IT ALSO IS NOT A STAMPED MARK .
THE VASE IS GREYISH -GREEN IN COLOR WITH TOUCHES OF COBALT BLUE COMING THRU THE PIECE AT THE TOP AND AT THE BOTTOM. THERE
ARE THREE INDENTATIONS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VASE DONE DURING THE FIRING PROCESS.
THE VASE IS APPRO 9 1/4 INCHES TALL AND
4 1/4 INCHES AT THE TOP.
AUTHENTIC ART POTTERY-POSSIBLY GERMAN IN ORIGIN.
THE MARK CONSISTS OF 3 SMALL CIRCLES AT THE UPPER LEFT QUADRANT FOLLOWED BY AN UNREADABLE MARK IN A SMALL CIRCLE . IN THE UPPER RIGHT QUADRANT A QUARTER OF THE WAY DOWN IS A LINE THAT GOES RIGHT TO LEFT TO THE MIDDLE. THE LOWER RIGHT QUADRANT HAS WHAT APPEARS TO BE A ROOK CHARACTER WITH A 3 PRONGED MARK COMING OUT OF THAT CHARACTER. THE LOWER LEFT QUADRANT HAS ANOTHER MARK ENCIRCLED WHICH IS NOT LEGIBLE.
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