Help identify pottery vase mark

[eccentricfinds]

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

[argon38]

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]

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

[argon38]

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]

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]

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@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)

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 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]

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@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]

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

[eccentricfinds]

yes, perhaps a 52.3?

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

[maxine*j]

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@art.pottery wrote:

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

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

[argon38]

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/ 

[eccentricfinds]

I will certainly try that. Thank you.