Featured sometimes I buy stuff by gut feeling

...and wonder if I'll ever solve the mystery...



soooo, someone in France made a vase in November (9bre) 1920...
and the rest is a mystery for the moment...

 

In my opinion the neck is a bit of a muddle and the leaves are upside down, which I find depressing. It's certainly stylish but misses the mark a bit aesthetically.

Not that I could do any better but I can criticize to Olympic standard without qualification or aptitude.

 

Yes but the East German judge gave it a 7 so what do YOU know.

 

I wondered about those upside down leaves as well when I saw it first. would be rather a hint towards art deco, wouldn't it ?
on the other hand it falls in that transitional era, where nobody is really sure what to call it.
the term art deco omly being minted after the big exposition in 1925 is sometimes misleading.

 

Art nouveau influenced?

It is not boring, anyway.

 

I do like it.

 

The leaves aren't upside down... they're pendentive. I'd say it's more nouveau than deco. Very attractive.

 

the colors are lovely...

 

Happy leaves raise their faces to the sun. Upside down or pendentive, these are turning their backs to the light and their faces to the earth. Also they have a sere and yellow look. They are not happy leaves. They have no aspirations. Doom awaits these leaves. Therefore I deduce a tendency to depress the observer sensitive to these nuances.

 

nowwww ... there I go, a word to remember.pendentive. especially when forgetting to close the fly

 

omy....

 

MUST you contribute to my meager stock of off colour drivel?????

PS I realize that if I ever "penned" that allusion I would be guilty of plagiarism, but that would be the lesser of most things I am guilty of....................

 

the plagiarism would be on my side, there's an old and very typical Dublin story where Oscar Wilde is walking through Stephen's Green with his fly open and a youngfelle sees it and tells his nanny that something is standing out of the fly. Wilde is correcting the child and tells him that it's hanging.

 

I love it when you brainiacs show your ribald side! It's strangely satisfying to me... like all of a sudden we all discover we have the same tattoo. Or something.

 

& yet once again a thread goes off the rails !

........as it will, with jolly folk who like to banter !

 

Fid...with the neck pinched like that I'm wondering if a large cork would not make this item an oil container.????

 

The colors would have made me think Hungarian or eastern European?

 

The decoration makes me think of a country/folk version of Art Nouveau. I tried searching for something similar, but didn't find anything.

 

I was thinking that, too. Or Dutch?

 

sorry then for that story...
I won't show any pics of my tattoos either, promissed...

dutch/hungarian etc.: IMO a big NO because the 9bre for november is absolutely French to the bone, as would be 8bre for octobre and 7bre for septembre.
a cork ? I don't think so.