Topic: Peter Layton ? vase on ebay

[collard123]

Hi guys , does this vase strike anyone else as looking very like a Mdina piece ? - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141188671125?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

[chopin-liszt]

It's a reasonably early bit of Mdina Earthtones, maybe mid-late'70s.
Well spotted!

The signature is a forgery, obviously. It's not even a very good one.  It's far too big and almost legible!

I've written to the seller to tell them.

[collard123]

Glad I've not completely lost my touch and not going completely mad!

[glassobsessed]

Odd back catalogue too, or is it just me?

Ebay completed listing 1

Ebay completed listing 2

Ebay completed listing 3

John

[collard123]

Must have got an etching pen for Xmas ! At least they are spelled correctly - if a bit wobbly

[KevinH]

Hi collard123, welcome to the Board.

I guess your comment about "getting an etching pen for Christmas" was intended to be tongue in cheek. But it could be seen as a direct statement that you believe the seller was responsible for adding a false signature.

The board policy on posts relating to sales items that may not be as described includes: Do not state anything is a fact, unless you can provide documentary proof! And also "If it is felt that a posting is taking an unfair position in respect of a person selling on an on-line auction the posting will be removed or edited to remove bias."

[chopin-liszt]

The seller told me it came from a house clearance and the lady whose house it was, told her that it had been made by a relative.

Maybe the relative had a dremel?
A whole load of folk could have had a dremmeling wotsit on it, before the seller got hold of it. 

There is absolutely no way of knowing how the marks got onto the base.
But they are not Peter Layton's signature and it is a bit of Mdina Earthtones.

What is worrying is that the bidding has gone a fair bit over what I would expect this sort of Earthtones vase to go for. The bidders appear to think it is the correct signature.

[collard123]

Sorry about that - I'll consider my wrists well and truly slapped
Whats a Dremmel 

[chopin-liszt]

An electric vibrating etching pen thingy.

[collard123]

Mmmmm ?