Featured Identifying antique decorative vases

Here are the photo’s of all sides. Both vases/urns are identical (so a mold was used) so I pictured one of them!

They feel cold and definitely sound like earthenware, so glazed terracotta is was it is I guess. Still needs craftmanship to make a mold like that I guess!

And the beautiful shadows I mentioned are indeed just dirtiness . So how would you clean these, looks like a long job because of all the relief.

 

And the rest of the pictures. The mark is the same on both vases/urns “546” so doesn’t help with identifying I guess.

 

The numbers look extremely similar to Johann Maresch who happens to be a terracotta sculpture. Most markings contain JM though.

 

Thank you for the photos, very enlightening. They look so very different from the ones you posted before, great job. It just goes to show how important good photos are.
From these photos I think we are looking at possible German ceramic vases, and as you say, they are glazed.

 

The number is stamped with ready made punches. Many manufacturers used them to indicate model codes.

 

True, but they have like the exact same size and format. Probably maybe thousands of these. The photo I found was on a top with an image searcher. Also saw that he did make some vases with the same color for example. At least, its worth a try

going to look into Germany to! Why do you think German?

 

It certainly is. Bohemia is also one of those regions that was heavily into "Historismus" historic revival, of the Renaissance for instance.

The 'heavy' look of them, and I have seen pottery like this from German manufacturers. And Germany was very much a Historismus as well as a pottery region.

I am not a pottery expert btw, but my mother was, and a bit rubbed off on me. There are true pottery experts on the forum, and they will be along later.

 

Those numbers are absolutely typical of Austrian and some German pots. Even without seeing the base, those much better pictures make me pretty sure that’s their origin. Late nineteenth.

I’d wash them. Put a towel in the sink in case you drop them. Warm water, washing up liquid and an old toothbrush.