Topic: Pair Handpainted Vases

[KevinH]

... Or have Kevin and Bernard determine the precise genus of flying duck!

Christine has done that very adequately, so that saves me from kicking off detailed debate .

But I suppose I ought to put on my pedant hat and add ...

In the website for  Britannica.com, this page does seem to cover the distribution quite well - not that I personally know any different. So perhaps we could be looking at vases decorated in Iceland, or Mexico, or Canada, or Asia???

But if I were to question anything, I'd ask whether anyone knows of drake mallard (normally with pale dusty yellow bills and bright orange legs) which have the same shade of bright yellow for the bills and legs! Maybe that could point to a specific country or area. But serioulsy, artistic licence applies here, just as it does with the details of the herons on the vases lnked to by "dinklepip".

I'll say no more.

[azelismia]

they aren't the same factory as the one in the link you provided ( I do not think those are Heckert either). the quality of decoration is very different. I've seen similar to yours with a paper label reading Czechoslovakia. My guess would be a little home decorator shop with the blanks purchased from a bigger company. the stippled snow effect is what really makes me think that way.