Featured English flambe pottery vase, help with mark

hi guys

found this vase yesterday (5" by 5"), bargain i suspect for 2 quid

anyone recognize the mark, looks like is says down - something

searched all last night couldn't find nothing

thought it was a modern decor vase at first, but the base begs to differ

must be early 20th century right ?

any thought appreciated

 

Gorgeous, charlie.
@Ownedbybear ?

 

thanks Aj, the only english flambe pottery i could find was doulton and ruskin, and its neither of those

the mark is a mystery to me

 

Urg. Down something, let me have a think.

Looks 1930s, nice pot.

 

Thanks obb

 

Hi Charlie,
It is a really really nice pot!!!!
greg

 

Thanks greg

 

The clay looks west of England/Cornwall. Maybe work your way through towns from here?

http://www.ukwebindex.co.uk/townandvillage/England/D/

 

Bernard Moore and Moorcroft did them too, however this looks like more like a typical Chinese style sang-de-boeuf glaze to me.

 

I started fiddling with the mark and I flipped it, wonder if it actually says ____NMOO_ so maybe something moor?

 

or maybe "moops" as in the Seinfeld bubble boy episode?

 

could be actually sis, thanks

 

Have a look at Devonmoor Pottery. What do you think?

 

Great shout mate, gotta be right

http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/pp.cgi?item=4108

Double thanks to sis as well

 

That is so pretty.

 

Thanks pearls

 

Hah. I did wonder if it was upside down, but discounted that on the grounds that ENGLAND was t'other way up!