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Title: Italian majolica vase
Post by: Technohippy on July 04, 2012, 02:06:44 PM

Hi there,

Another infrequent post. I have been advised that the vase in the photos attached is italian majolica from capo di monte (might have misheard this). the makers mark appears to say 'valceycy' and '34'

as usual I have no clue whatsoever, so any advice would be gratefully recieved

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: yattypat on July 06, 2012, 04:41:48 PM

Has a southwest look to me.  Have you tried that angle?

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: greenacres on July 06, 2012, 05:56:43 PM

Are you sure someone didn't write that on after. That's the "lily of the Valley" pattern.

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: Technohippy on July 07, 2012, 04:43:04 AM

Thanks so much for your replies,

Quote from: yattypat on July 06, 2012, 04:41:48 PM

Has a southwest look to me.  Have you tried that angle?

No I haven't, I shall look into it. Are you thinking southwest in the US?

Quote from: greenacres on July 06, 2012, 05:56:43 PM

Are you sure someone didn't write that on after. That's the "lily of the Valley" pattern.

the mark is definitely under the glaze, not sure what you mean by the lilly of the valley pattern though... are you familiar with this piece?

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: greenacres on July 07, 2012, 08:32:16 AM

No, but I put Valceycy "34" in the search for images and that's the pattern that came up. Check and see. Then I tried putting western seen and nothing came up.

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: greenacres on July 07, 2012, 08:39:20 AM

Oh, and I put in Majolica.

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: mart on July 07, 2012, 01:11:11 PM

Did the same vase come up ??  I tried and couldn`t find anything in regular search !!  It does look more southwest than anything !!

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: Technohippy on July 08, 2012, 09:11:27 AM

I gotta say, Ive done google, bing, yahoo, clusty searches for valceycy "34", just valceycy there seems to be no record of the word valceycy on the internet as far as i can see. maybe its a regional thing cos i'm getting nothing from the uk.

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: greenacres on July 08, 2012, 09:54:25 AM

Check near Brazil or South America. I did see something.

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: Technohippy on July 08, 2012, 01:04:59 PM

hmm still no luck here :( don't suppose you have a link there do you?

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: greenacres on July 08, 2012, 01:20:16 PM

http://www.ceramic-link.de/icd/pages/marks/marksindex.htm You could try this. It may help you.

Title: Re: Italian majolica vase
Post by: Technohippy on July 08, 2012, 01:55:13 PM

:( yeah been there, thanks for the link though. its odd how there is literally no trace of it this end