Help on the identity of this ceramic lamp

Hi All
I acquired a cute pottery bedside lamp.It depicts a motif of a ship with a cross.It is designed baseless with only a covering.No mark on it.Any ideas?
thanks!
TTA

 

NICE!
I like it much!
Belonged to Columbus?

 

Hi,
I have to say I thought the Santa Maria myself.
greg

 

why not the Nina or Pinta ?

 

Well it is one of them....but he was the Captain.....

 

Hi,
The Nina and the Pinta perhaps did not the the large cross which was on the flag ship?
greg

 

This I'm not certain of but I'd figure they would've.

 

Oh....well then ' cross ' those off the list !!

 

If you're going to depict one of them which one?
See.
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Could be there were three lamps or maybe just another with the two 'minor' ships on it.

 

thanks all...u seem to have a consensus on the motif ....but what about the pottery itself? any ideas on its maker?
TTA

 

Doesn't seem we know but you've not had it posted long so give other folks time to pop by.

 

This looks 1920s,that glaze is really niggling at me,like Ive seen this stuff before.Are you by any chance near detroit?

 

not at all...I am not in USA ..I am in Europe..
TTA

 

Definitely not portraying The Nina because she was a lateen rigged caravel. Lateen rigged had triangle sails, not square sails. The Pinta and Santa Maria were squared rigged. Just a bit of trivial that someday might be a Jeopardy question.

--- Susan

 

Hi Susan,
Thanks for the update!!!!!!
greg

 

Why can't it just be a Spanish Galleon?

 

Cause it only looks like 3 quarts?

 

Actually, it's 4 and a quarter - You just can't see straight

 

La Pinta (the prostitue) not her real name, the sailors nicknamed her, the Santa Clara nicknamed the Nina after her owner Nino and the Santa Maria .. bless the History channel.

 

And I just finished reading a biography of CC that mentioned the same..............