eBay

eccentricfinds · ‎04-30-2020

Vase looks to be European possibly Italian design. Help with signature to bottom.

argon38 · ‎04-30-2020

I think it may be the same name written in Arabic script (on the top) and in Latin script (underneath), but I haven't figured out what the name actually is.

eccentricfinds · ‎05-04-2020

I doubt it it looks like a date. Also it looks European in design probably Italian.

argon38 · ‎05-04-2020

I made the suggestion because the middle part of the top line looks rather like the characters جو to me. However, I freely admit that I cannot read Arabic so I wouldn't pretend to be certain, particularly as I can't figure it out as a whole.

sonomabarn67 · ‎05-04-2020

I keep looking at this and here is my pithy offering: it looks like a variant of Irrefors (think Orrefors the Swedish glass house) and the clay does look like what I've seen in Scandinavian pottery. Just a guess, don't yell at me.

argon38 · ‎05-05-2020

@sonomabarn67 wrote:
I keep looking at this and here is my pithy offering: it looks like a variant of Irrefors (think Orrefors the Swedish glass house)

Irrefors doesn't exist as a surname, though, according to Google and this very comprehensive resource:

https://lastnames.myheritage.com/last-names/

(Orrefors does exist as a surname it seems, but the glassworks was named after a place, not a person.)

argon38 · ‎05-05-2020

@eccentricfinds wrote:
it looks like a date.

Could you expand on this a little? You read the top line as two numbers and a period, followed by another two numbers and a period - is that right?

art.pottery · ‎05-05-2020

My knee jerk response was the bottom word was a poorly written “Israel”?

eccentricfinds · ‎05-05-2020

yes, perhaps a 52.3?

who knows it's all a jumble and could possibly be upside down??

maxine*j · ‎05-05-2020

@art.pottery wrote:
My knee jerk response was the bottom word was a poorly written “Israel”?

And the top bit could be cursive Hebrew...?

argon38 · ‎05-05-2020

It's a puzzler. If I were the OP I'd post a photo of the base on Reddit translate, just to rule a foreign language in or out. It's quickly done, and there are native speakers there who will know one way or the other:

https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/