Topic: Help ID my Vase, PLEASE!!!!

[jomo99]

 Hi,

      Am a newbie to the board so please be gentle with me!! I have a few bits I'd like to get ID's on and willupload over the next few days, but heres the first (sorry quality isn't good,taken on phone as cameras not working)

       TIA, John

 p.s the mark could be read as either a U or an N either would be gothic (i Think!)

[MMorris]

Hi

Don't recognise this one - there again I don't know who made 70% of the pots Ive got
Hopefully someone out there may know just who it is and I'm sure they will let you know if they do. As I've learnt there are so many different potters out there often you may never find out who it is. Its a bit like paintings. Some are obviously styles by known painters whilst others are done by imitators/similar schools,amateurs ets etc.

don't be discouraged though

Good luck though & welcome

M

[Anne]

Hiya John, good to see you here.    (John's an old friend from the glass message board - a few others will know him from there too.)

I've a feeling we've seen this mark somewhere before and I'm racking my brain trying to think what it was....  perhaps someone else can recall seeing it too or know what it was?

[antiquerose123]

  Hi there, and Welcome to the Board - jomo99 

This one stumps me.  Is it incised? And by no way is it an *L* and a *I* so close together that it looks like an *U* ??

Perhaps if some powder was rubbed over it, it might help to show up the mark better.  Have you tried that jomo99?  Or try to take a picture of the bottom with a very bright light close to the bottom, as the camera then seems to pick up more than the eye sees (the reflective quality) under the glaze.  Try that and see what kind of pix you get, and then post for us..


....and again Welcome.

[jomo99]

thanx for the tips Rose! I'll give them a go tomorrow and post them if they turn out, but I'm afraid I only have the camera on my fone and its not very good! 


        John

[jomo99]

Have now taken some more shots as suggested,however I'm not sure if they're a help or a hinderance!LOL as I'm still having to use my fone camera to take pics, but here goes..................................................!




      John

[jomo99]

..........and a couple more!

[jomo99]

 Hi Peeps!!

                  Thought I'd found the maker of this pot  , a friend suggested it could be by  Heidi Newberry, so I searched the internet and found an email addy for her, contacted her yesterday and she replied saying it WASN'T one of hers! However she has said she will look into it further for me, so not all bad news

   John

[antiquerose123]

looks like a H to me....If American (??) here are some H names....

http://www.vasefinder.com/online_mus.html
http://www.vasefinder.com/AH_mus.html

http://www.thepotteries.org/mark/h/h.html
or look around here (maybe) http://www.mygrannysatticantiques.com/html/pottery__porcelain_and_china_m.htm

i will keep hunting too..