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Message:: [QUOTE="Walter Del Pellegrino, post: 300615, member: 90"]This piece is quite an enigma. Take away the impressed “Made in Japan” seal and the vase becomes purely a 1920’s Italian vase from the region of Umbria (Deruta, Perugia, etc). But that stamp adds a facet to the story that just doesn’t fit. Firstly, lets establish that just because the vase belonged to Grandma that its old. Most elderly, like myself, remain consumers for life. I personally have made many purchases of consumer goods in the last year. Therefore not everything in a senior’s home is an antique. Thus, we can’t assume that your vase is old but rather that it was made to look old. Japan today does very little manufacturing. Very few goods sold in the U.S, today are marked “Made in Japan”. As a matter of fact I challenge forum members to search their own homes and try to discover a “Made in Japan” label. The situation was quite different in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. At that time Japan was struggling to rise from the ashes of a World War and the country was looking for anything it could export to make money. However, Japan never created knock-off items meant to fool the consumer. They never produced, in any quantity at least, imitation Italian pottery. In my honest opinion these vases were created by an italian. Maybe the artist was living in Japan but they weren’t created by a Japanese artist.[/QUOTE]