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Title: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: trudie on January 30, 2008, 06:27:48 PM

Is this vase Dutch? (I inhereted it from my grandfather) Who made it? When?

Title: Re: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: Lustrousstone on January 30, 2008, 08:09:24 PM

The range name seems to be Fauna, which makes sense but what is the little impressed mark under Fauna?

Title: Re: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: trudie on January 31, 2008, 02:27:19 PM

I've made a new picture of the bottom of the vase.. Yes, now I see the word 'fauna', Stupid that I didn't see that myself.
The lower mark says HV.
And is the letter F in fauna just decorated or is it a cmbination like ZFL, or ZF?
And I thought the topmark VV should be the pottery's mark. Is that true or did I understand this wrongly?

Title: Re: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: trudie on February 05, 2008, 10:16:22 PM

The topmark (VV) looks like the mark from the "Veurse Werkplaatsen'  in Leidschendam, Holland. This was a very small pottery, that produced in the years 1947-1951. But they made years 50's kind of pottery, at least the few examples I saw were so. And I think the decor on the vase looks more like Jugendstil.

So who knows the answer? I love this little vase and I really like to know where it's from.

Title: Re: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: Sue C on February 05, 2008, 11:17:28 PM

I believe this is probably a studio pot, not mass manufactured....i wil do a rootle for you.. ;D

Title: Re: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: trudie on February 06, 2008, 04:35:04 PM

Thanks. Hope you'll get something

Title: Re: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: trudie on March 18, 2008, 07:31:45 PM

Anyone any idea yet?  :hlp:

Title: Re: From where is this cute green vase with elegant birds?
Post by: trudie on April 22, 2008, 06:12:15 PM

I've consulted 2 Dutch experts in art nouveau ceramics by email: both experts could not identify the maker of this vase. The suggestion is, that this might not be Dutch, but maybe German pottery. In the 1920's the Meissner pottery also had some modern designers at work. His idea is, that this could be an option, as the top mark shows some resemblance with a crude form of the two swords, the Meissner pottery mark. At least, when compared to these in the book he consulted: Dieter Z?hlsdorff, Keramik-Marken Lexikon 1885-1935, Stuttgart (Arnoldsche) 1994.
Is anyone famiiar with this type of German pottery?

Trudie