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<p>[QUOTE="AnaK, post: 2706893, member: 12684"][ATTACH=full]274956[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274957[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274958[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274959[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274960[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274961[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274963[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274964[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274956[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274956[/ATTACH] Good afternoon all. I bought this vase recently, have been studying it a lot, but completely at a loss of what it is. Any help and advise would be greatly appreciated!!!!</p><p>It is porcelain in either patinaed bronze or spelter. but parts of metal appear to be adhered to porcelain with some sort of epoxy?! the dusty blue is rather matte robin egg blue, very alike some limoges pottery; the birds and flowers are overglaze enamels, hand painted with lots of skill. the top of the vase was a separate part, glued rather unprofessionally after it clearly came off at some point. and the orange and red semi-ovals at the top do not match at all the rest of the vase ..... there are no marks other than a "check mark" in the clay. my original thoughts were french ... but now not sure at all .... many thanks in advance! a[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="AnaK, post: 2706893, member: 12684"][ATTACH=full]274956[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274957[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274958[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274959[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274960[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274961[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274962[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274963[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274964[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274965[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274956[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]274956[/ATTACH] Good afternoon all. I bought this vase recently, have been studying it a lot, but completely at a loss of what it is. Any help and advise would be greatly appreciated!!!! It is porcelain in either patinaed bronze or spelter. but parts of metal appear to be adhered to porcelain with some sort of epoxy?! the dusty blue is rather matte robin egg blue, very alike some limoges pottery; the birds and flowers are overglaze enamels, hand painted with lots of skill. the top of the vase was a separate part, glued rather unprofessionally after it clearly came off at some point. and the orange and red semi-ovals at the top do not match at all the rest of the vase ..... there are no marks other than a "check mark" in the clay. my original thoughts were french ... but now not sure at all .... many thanks in advance! a[/QUOTE]
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