Featured Delft tulip vases, 10" high, where would these normally be marked?

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  1. sunday silence

    sunday silence Well-Known Member

    is there any way to tell the age on these? 22938399_20200729122858.jpg 60005678_20200729122847.jpg 55635194_20200729122850.jpg 81747168_20200729122854.jpg 89324258_20200729122852.jpg
     
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Beautiful, sunday.
    Not all Delfts or delftware is marked. If they are marked it would be on the base, so you would have seen it. Could we see the bases anyway?

    This is a shape I have never seen before. Tulip vases were (and are) made in different countries, but they originated in Persia, as did blue and white glaze on ceramics. The shape traveled to Europe, but also to Central Asia and China.
    The shape of these has a Persian look, but I haven't seen it on the original Persian tulip vases either.

    @say_it_slowly ?:)
     
  3. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Perhaps start with the material, from the first photo it looks like it may be porcelain. If so from that I'd venture a guess these may be Chinese. Just guessing. Base may(or may not) be helpful.
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Those dark rims are seen on some Chinese blue and white ceramics. Those Persian inspired borders and motifs as well.
     
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  5. janetpjohn

    janetpjohn Well-Known Member

  6. sunday silence

    sunday silence Well-Known Member

  7. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Try starting with the material. Are they porcelain or earthenware? What do the bases look like?
     
  8. sunday silence

    sunday silence Well-Known Member

    here's the base of one:
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  9. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Have you checked under the fuzzy feet yet?
     
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  10. blooey

    blooey Well-Known Member

    Chinese Porcelain body, so as @janetpjohn pointed out, Chinese.

    Rare to see old delftware without a single chip.

    These vases look 20thc to me, remove fuzzy feet as @say_it_slowly says. Seems like some are marked in the central base, but of course any reign mark would be apocryphal.
     
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  11. Janice Nicholls

    Janice Nicholls Active Member

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