Hello again. Thank you so much for identifying ceramic pieces I have obtained at estate auctions for which I know nothing about at the time of purchase. (I spend between $5.00 and $45.00 U.S., but I wouldn't recommend my method for anything more expensive than this!)
Here is a large and heavy urn or vase I recently purchased. Is it a modern piece?
Thank you for any information you can give me.
More photos (if I can get them small enough). Thx.
I'll try these one at a time....
Last one...I have more, but will post them only if necessary. Thx!
The faces alone can tell us that this is hardly older than late 20th century.
Great; thank you. I suspected as much, thanks to the good information in this website -- it just looked too new, and the handles seem odd-looking compared to the rest of the piece, not to mention the base and the heavy-handed yellow paint.
So faces -- on the modern pieces they should be rather whispy (the hair) and thinly-painted w/fine brush strokes? And older faces have more solid hair paint?
Trying to be a good student........thanks much!