Thanks to you both Robert and Anik, I am very happy with this one, and to think I almost did not buy it because I thought it could have been a Chinese vase............I was so surprised to find it in a sleepy Sussex town here in the UK, I could hardly bring myself to think it was an original Czech vase.! Especially as I had not seen one in the flesh so to speak before! :hiclp: It certainly is a fabulous quality piece.