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Message:: [QUOTE="User 67, post: 14355, member: 67"]I can't tell from the photos if it really is glass enamel, because it kinda looks like a chemical patina process. I have never seen where someone has just tossed the enamel on like that and then fired it, especially before 1970. The line quality and style don't seem to hold up to mid century or Italian to me. It reeks of student work done between 1985 and 2000. There was a craze later in that time for copper patina and inventive patina processes, I would date it in the mid 1990s. There is sometimes a reason why an artist doesn't fully sign or date a piece. It's possible that this is an intaglio plate that the artist decided to enhance with patina after they had printed as much as they were going to print, because they couldn't see disposing of or grinding down the plate, or flipping it to make a new etching afterward -the edges have been beveled, suggesting it was a printing plate. .[/QUOTE]