Topic: Mystery scenic vase. signed but don't know what to make of the siggy

[azelismia]

Anyone recognize this? Btw, it's a bit dirty. I haven't cleaned it yet. These are clickable images, it's got definite wear on the base.

[azelismia]

oh and it's quite large. it's about 9" tall and six inches across and 3 inches wide.

[Galle]

The closest thing I could come up with is StQuen, ca. 1930 - probably refers to the Paris suburb of St Quentin

[chopin-liszt]

I thought the signature might read "Swan" - it is a surname.

[Galle]

Well looking at StQuen a little closer, I don't think this is it.

[krsilber]

To me it looks like "Sloan."  There was a Sloan Glass Co. in Maryland, but I don't know if they made this kind of thing.

[azelismia]

I wouldn't think the second letter came up high enough to be an L. all of the letters except the S come to the same height except for the trailing bit on the end of the last letter. Chopin-Liszt, were you thinking this might be an artists signature rather than a glass manufacturers siggy? I am beginning to think that's got to be what this is. It got me thinking about how different art glass decoration is than art pottery. it's very common to find the artists cipher on good pottery and not so much on art glass. I wonder why that is? on glasshounds website it makes mention on how it's thought quenvit is thought to be another signature of Legras? Is that true? They credit Ivo with that information. I have to admit in the back of my mind I keep thinking that this  (Swan or Suan or srian or whatever this reads) might be another strange siggy from legras. I believe I've seen legras with this shape before and they did do cameo with the red and frost so why not enamel? that's just a hunch though. no idea if it's true or not.

[Frank]

Possibly Suan, there was a French artist of that name.

[krsilber]

I bet that's it.  Looks French.  I thought the first bit after the S went up, but I think I'm seeing a brush stroke.

Historically glass workers have been more often craftsmen rather than artists.  They made wares after patterns designed by someone else.  Is that true of good pottery as well?

[azelismia]

I am pretty sure that's true of the art in and on art pottery as well. even if they do not design what they are doing they still have to execute the design and it's going to be done with different levels of skill depending on how talented they are right?

Frank, do you know what the rest of Suan's name was?