No hearing or eye protection either. They're probably sitting there wondering, "Why can't they just use chopsticks like normal people." It's my...
Dammit Zammit, I'm a forum member, not a doctor!
I got nothing. The only things I can come up with are renaissance bronzes, like Ghiberti's self portrait on the Florence baptistry doors: [ATTACH]
Try searching: https://gotheborg.com/marks/20thcenturyjapan.shtml
Maybe for a bale of straw or cotton or such? [ATTACH]
Could be a spoon rest. If the Vatican mark gives it a religious connotation, maybe a baptism spoon rest?
It has the look of tole painting to me.
It's my understanding that Sklo was not a specific manufacturer but a group of makers involved in a common marketing association, and there were...
That looks closer. Two figures like that start looking like parts of the four seasons.
This has a rabbit: [IMG]
As I inadvertently come across flowers painters, I add their names to an arbitrary list (no particular rhyme or reason): Daniel Seghers 1590-1661...
Still, very pretty.
I think there's cause to question. [ATTACH] There's a harshness to OP's. The passage that bothers me most is the midriff: [ATTACH]
Want a closer picture of the mark on OP's. That figurine in the second link is not quite the same as this, although very close, and it does have...
Looks to me like it's marked just below that bunch of grapes on the base.
They look very mid-century to me - late '50s into the '60s.
Take at look at Sklo.
With no siggy and that palette, I'd guess Japanese. But it gets called "Japanese Gouda"....
They do not look to me like outstanding design, but old construction does often seem to be more durable than new construction for the same price....
Reminds me of the band, Devo: [IMG]
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