Featured Grumpy pony vase!

This was in a box of 50p junk at a car boot sale. I only picked it out because it looks like it has a silver rim and despite my avatar the sour looking pony doesn’t really do it for me!.
It’s a bit of a conundrum to me as the vase doesn’t look particularly quality and isn’t marked but then why bother to put a hallmarked silver rim on it?
I thought it would be an easy ID and it rings a bell with me that I vaguely recognise it but I can’t find anything similar on the net.
I did wonder if it was one of those pretend hallmarks as found on silver plate but although the silver is pretty mangled I think the middle stamp is the lion. The P is very clear and there is a separately less well stamped D off to the left. Possibly the right hand stamp is an anchor but it’s not clear. Please can anyone help?
Thankyou for looking
Edited to add, I’ve run out of acid to test it but it polishes like silver.

 

The P is real - either 1890 or 1910, I think.

 

Thankyou. That’s older than I thought!

 

The right hand stamp is the leopard head.

 

Ah, ok, I see that now . Thankyou

 

It's not uncommon for people to take a silver rim from something broken and put it on something else, so that could also be a possibility.

 

It did occur to me that was a possibility although there aren’t any joins in the silver and it fits very closely so,if so, it’s come from something exactly the same size. The top is so beaten, maybe that’s why it fits closely!

 

Silver was very cheap when this was done. Often used to give a bit of class.

 

That’s good as we need that around here

Not much to go on is an understatement! They obviously have as little clue as I do about it but I’m very impressed you found something similar as I found absolutely nothing!.
Thankyou for looking. It will go into the unsolved pile for the moment!.

 

KSW, I just wanted to thank you for the "grumpy pony" description. For some reason it really put a smile on my face this morning, lol. Love it.

 

Ah, that’s good. It’s a good day when you can make someone smile
@i need help, interesting that they think that one is hand painted as I thought it was transferred but maybe not?

 

Often it's a combination of hand painting and transfers. Without being able to examine it in hand I would guess the pony is transfer and the background is hand painted. If you can look at the pony with a magnifying glass you may see the image is composed of little dots. That's a sign of a transfer.

The little vase INH found reminds me of Royal Bayreuth although if it was Royal Bayreuth I would expect it to be marked. RB used silver collars on some items. I would guess German on KSW's vase too despite the leopard's head. Sometimes, I think, a vase was sold by one company for the silver to be applied by another. I'm sorry I don't have a reference for that last sentence.
Don

 

When I first read the title I wondered if it was from Japan because there are so many perturbed and pissed faces of animals on ceramics from there! I love them for that

 

I will do

Having Googled I can definitely see the similarities.

That makes sense.

Lol, I may have just found another Avenue of collecting to follow

 

I may have to join you

 

I have a little vase must be made by the same maker with the pony. I havent discovered how to add photos so cant put it up. it stands 11 cms, has the same deep blue bottom half with gilded design although mine is very worn. Mine looks like highland cattle and is definately a transfer. The background trees appear to me as if they have been sprayed on? rather than applied with a brush. No silver rim. Mine has blue markings underneath on the base but too indistinct to see if they are really markings. Also impressed numbers under the glaze 6019 but I may be reading it incorrectly.

 

I hope I have done the image correctly

 

Hi Caro!

YOu did it!

Just one thing.......next time choose Full Image so photos can be seen better.