Featured Secessionist or slightly weird Victorian vase??

Decided this vase was weird enough to be worth a twenty dollar bid at a local auction and everyone else decided it was too weird to bother bidding on so it went home with me. Did the usual mark search and came up with Ernst Wahliss, Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia, Austria and a date sometime around 1910. Did a search for “Ernst Wahliss secessionist vase” and found a plain Jane Victorian “crap green” one and thought I had one of those amateur painted jobs but the green one has divots where the moriage style gold flower stigma were so somebody has scraped them off and re-painted it. They really liked this crap green in those days. The background is transfer printed and the main flowers and gold stigma are hand done. Ernst kicked the bucket in 1900 and shortly after that his sons bought several hundred old molds from the Vienna porcelain factory so it may be an old secessionist vase that has been re-purposed with an applied floral decoration.

Data – 36cm High, 16.4cm Wide, 0.77Kg

Thoughts???

Cheers
Stephen

 

well that's funky cool !!!!

 

Your knowledge is great, Steve, certainly greater than mine. I can only say: Looks like a good deal for $20!

 

Nice find! … and certainly a good buy for $20.00

I don't think so. Probably original and just a different variation on the same mold. Not plain-Jane Victorian but, rather, a more arts and crafts decorating motif. Some (including me) might prefer this over the floral. Both could have been in production at the same time.

 

Think you are right as the "divots / dimples" would accurately locate the tiny drops of gold paint for the stigma and also keep them almost identical in size. Good thinking verybrad.
Cheers
Stephen

 

Ooo, I like it! It's hard to believe that nobody else bid on it. Lucky you!

 

Pretty, pretty, pretty!!