Topic: ebay auction question about piece

[obscurities]

I found this listed with a laundry list of attributions... just curious what anyone thinks....  It actually does not really strike me as Italian.... but I could very well be wrong again.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140321741075&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&viewitem=&salenotsupported

TIA  Craig

[Ivo]

I think that translates as "could be anything" combined with "I'm clueless but I'm pretty".  And I do have my doubts about at least one of those statements....

[obscurities]

Ivo,

I am going to take a wild guess that it is the second statement you doubt.   :rn:

Craig

[Anne]

Objective discussion about items is fine, dissing sellers is skating close to the wind folks.

[obscurities]

I was under the impression that the comment was a cynical one in regards to the vase...  not about any seller....  I had not even thought of that...   I went back to look at the sellers about me page but they do not have one....  and I guess the seller may be female based on the name, although I do not guess at anything like that on ebay any more....  I have been surprised by the gender of a seller on more than few occassions!!   

Sorry...  I didn't think of that at all....  I had not even looked at the seller name... i just looked at the glass.....   

[Anne]

I think that translates as "could be anything" combined with "I'm clueless but I'm pretty".  And I do have my doubts about at least one of those statements....

I don't think it's normal to call glass "clueless" somehow ... well maybe ... but ...  :huh: 

[obscurities]

Sorry, I just didn't think about it that way....  You are right, it is not normal to glass clueless.... hence my take on the cynicism angle, as if he were speaking "for the glass". I am in the US and do find, on occasion, your sense of humor across the pond to be "interesting"....  and some of your sayings to be quite humorous... hence, my naive take on what Ivo said...  I guess that makes me "Clueless in Seattle"     

Craig 

[Anne]

As opposed to Sleepless in... no that's me still here at 3.30 am!   No worries Craig, I just wanted to be sure the seller wasn't being popped at.

[langhaugh]

Craig

Aspects of the piece remind me of some of the stuff Jordan's Importing sold. They did sheared tops and and pulled bottoms, and the amber is right. However, the double gourd seems unusual as does the colour at the top. Of course, if it's JI, that doesn't take you much further forward; it still could be anything. Czech is the other possibility, for the colour and the pulled bits. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't risk $25.00 plus mailing on it, and I'm easily tempted.

David

[Max]

I didn't read it that Ivo was talking about the seller?   

There's a chance this vase is new and Chinese, like the influx we've seen in Kent of the new styles from that country.  Some of them do have have sheared tops and thick ribbing like this one.  Something to bear in mind.