Topic: Iridescent Vase - signature help. ID = Mtarfa

[Alsretro]

This vase is 4 7/8ins tall x 3 3/4ins at its widest and weighs 407g. Some of the design is raised. Any help with the signature would be appreciated. I wondered if it reads Mtarfa but it doesn't look as if there is enough there for that.

[chopin-liszt]

It does read Mtarfa. You have to be able to decipher it from the experience of encountering it beforehand. It's upside-down. It's slightly easier to decipher the right way up.
But not a lot.

[Alsretro]

Thanks Sue. Older or new? Seemed a tad more fancy than some I've seen.
Alastair

[chopin-liszt]

Old-er, I think. There is another mark that is newer, but I can't rememeber exactly what that's like now...