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Title: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: lmj on May 12, 2009, 02:16:58 PM

I have bought this vase purely out of interest it stand at 12cm and approx 14cm at its widest and has the indentation stamp of     116
                                                                       R
i have never seen this type of base stamp before,also it is smooth yet matt to the touch and is brown glazed inside. lynn

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: Anne on May 12, 2009, 07:26:51 PM

I'd suggest that 116 is the height in millimetres, Lynn. The R will possibly lead us to the maker but I've no idea who that'd be, but someone else may know.  :x-fingers:

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: lmj on May 12, 2009, 10:50:44 PM

thanks for that Anne,the pot is 116mm,just hope someone can recognise it. lynn

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: Lustrousstone on May 13, 2009, 07:47:51 PM

It may be German and Carstens Rheinsberg. I suspect perhaps pre-War and possibly quite desirable. I could be completely wrong however, but the R mark was used by this factory
http://www.keramik-rheinsberg.de/geschichte_e.html

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: antiquerose123 on May 15, 2009, 10:41:21 PM

I might have something similar to this.....(at least I think it is, but mine has no mark either) but a lady I bought it from said she got it when they were in Germany.....

Let me get a pix done...   ;)

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: lmj on May 15, 2009, 11:08:13 PM

Thanks for the interest,i would be interestd to see your pics..lynn

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: lmj on August 05, 2009, 09:46:42 PM

would this be classed as fat lava  ...lynn

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: Anne on August 06, 2009, 07:43:39 PM

I don't think so Lynn. Fat Lava is where the glazes are thick and drippy and look like volvanic eruptions. This isn't like that at all. Firms who made FL pottery also make non-FL.

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: lmj on August 06, 2009, 07:47:00 PM

still learning !!! thanks..lynn

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: ChimpMad on September 09, 2009, 12:30:51 PM

This is known as 'Sgrafitto' work, where the pattern is scratched into the body before firing, and is possibly by either Roth Keramik or Ruscha Keramic.

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: Lustrousstone on September 09, 2009, 12:35:25 PM

Sgrafitto is where the pattern is scratched through wet glaze to show the clay underneath. That one has been patterned, then had glaze applied, then the wet glaze rubbed off to show the high points of the pattern as bare clay

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: ChimpMad on September 09, 2009, 01:57:52 PM

Yup, my mistake! In my defence though, I haven't been well of late  :boohoo: (all together now; AAAAAH). I should have said 'incised decoration', but even then that only really applies if it were done as a seperate process to the moulding, and I think that this is a moulded decoration, so I was miles away really! Sorry  ;D

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: Anne on September 10, 2009, 12:12:02 AM

Sorry to hear you've been unwell CM, hope you're on the mend now. We've missed your input on the board.

Title: Re: Geometric patterned vase,any ideas of maker?
Post by: antiquerose123 on September 12, 2009, 12:23:33 PM

Bravo ...  :clap: :clap: there on the maker.......................and glad to hear that chimpMaD is up to some Bananas -- AS in US ;D ;D ;D