odd ceramic piece (baluster? maybe) with equally odd mark, is it delft? thanks

Not Delft per se as it isn't Dutch. It is from Belgium and has an old Boch mark.

In the book "Discovering Dutch Delftware" Van Hook describes your mark as being "around the turn of the century" (1900). He says they stopped making handpainted tin-glazed Delftware by 1920.

https://www.royalboch.com/en/les-marques-2/

 

Use onion when looking for them, like onion neck.

 

they also seem to be called "bottle neck vase" but I do not see any made by Bosch of that time period. Do people still have interest in that name because it became part of Villeroi and Boch?

 

Maybe you used the wrong spelling to search?

It's Boch not Bosch. Bet you found some good deals on kitchen appliances?

 

You might try searching using knobble or garlic-neck too. I've got a couple large onion neck polychrome vases quite similar that are Dutch by Makkum Tichelaar. One is of about that time period so perhaps popular at the time.(as later versions of early pieces)

Here is a smaller similar one and two with a gourd-like neck.

https://bargainsurfing.ecrater.com/p/28890571/antique-boch-frres-keramis-knobble

https://www.etsy.com/sg-en/listing/646099500/two-tall-boch-freres-keramis-delft

 

Ive been using both. I even got the contact lens stuff...

 

thanks for all the help. I had another post but it got eaten I guess....

 

it's happens.............on one's birthday..

 

ha ha. my daughter and I are driving to the mountains to watch the meteor shower so its a red letter day I guess.

 

could even be better.....

 

ha ha. yeah I didn't even see that..