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Posted 10 years ago
melaniej
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7 1/2 Tall
Hand Painted
Majolica
I assume it's Italian
Impressed mark on bottom highlight with baby powder but still can't make it out......looks like K with some circle marks below it and to the side of the K it looks like a vessel.
Thrift store find.
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Very Nice -- and Very European!!
I had something like this, see if I still have the pics (??).
Just wondering.......the Boat thing as you called it -- looks like a ?? half moon TO ME ?? (or a crescent Moon). Might it be ??
Antique rose it does look like a half moon .....
To me it looks like a crescent shaped blade with a handle, like a sickle (unless the handle is just a heap of powder that's not part of the mark). The circles under the K seem to be 3 of 6 circles arranged in a triangle or pyramid.
noob I will post pic without powder.........I believe it is part of the mark.
antiquerose
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noob
New picture of mark added #3
Noob it does look like a handle to .........well ........whatever that is :)
beautiful!!!
It's a knife for harvesting grapes ( http://www.grapeknife.com/ ), and the six circles are arranged as a stylized bunch of grapes.
The pottery started in a wine-growing region? The Greeks and Romans fermented wines in large terracotta vessels and transported wine in amphorae. There are still regions where that's the traditional practice, and there's a bit of a revival in fermenting and aging wine in terracotta.
Sorry, though, no identification of the mark.
thank you Sean
Your very welcome melaniej!!