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Pottery => Scandinavian & Nordic => Topic started by: ginfor on October 09, 2007, 10:06:11 PM

Title: Michael Andersen Dog
Post by: ginfor on October 09, 2007, 10:06:11 PM

I think this dog is post-1950, but I'd like to find out more if possible.  It has a gunmetal glaze with a green tone and is incised 157.2 or 137.2.  There's also an F, and I'd love to know its meaning.
Forrest

Title: Re: Michael Andersen Dog
Post by: ginfor on October 09, 2007, 11:12:04 PM

It's well incised, but that second number is just oddly shaped.  Wait a minute.  Looking at it from a distance, it may actually be 1562. There are some oddities in the writing style, some disconnections between the lines.  What I thought was the upper part of a 7, may actually be the upper line of a 5...which I thought was missing.  Then, what I thought was a . actually becomes the lower part of a 6.  And this is starting to sound like code.

Forrest

Title: Re: Michael Andersen Dog
Post by: Anne on October 10, 2007, 01:42:12 AM

It looks like 1562 to me too.

Title: Re: Michael Andersen Dog
Post by: josordoni on October 10, 2007, 09:08:00 AM

Forrest, do you think it may have been overpainted?  The little triangle is very reminiscent of Royal Dux - if you scratch the triangle slightly, is it pink clay underneath?  Does it have anything on the triangle?

Title: Re: Michael Andersen Dog
Post by: Sue C on October 10, 2007, 11:27:30 AM

could be vienna?  users.skynet.be/rutrene/marks12.html

Title: Re: Michael Andersen Dog
Post by: Martyn on October 10, 2007, 06:34:03 PM

It definately looks like Michael Andersen's mark and number code to me, but I dont remember seeing any pieces quite like this dog before.....