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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dgbjwc, post: 1412370, member: 308&quot;]Hello and welcome robbi - At one time (more than 60 years ago actually - starting about 1900 and running into the Depression era) dutch scenes were all the rage.&nbsp; Scenes of dutch children, windmills, ladies with bonnets and wooden shoes, etc. were found in many, many homes.&nbsp; There was also a hobbyist phase going on at about the same time.&nbsp; Womens&#039; magazines printed patterns and scenes that a home painter could copy on to all types of items especially dishes and vases.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Your vase looks like it was painted by one of these hobbyists.&nbsp; There is a lack of sophistication to the painting.&nbsp; If you google &quot;dutch scenes on porcelain&quot;, or words to that effect, you&#039;ll see pieces produced in countries like England and Austria that show much more complicated and better executed designs.&nbsp; Even so, many of these designs were romanticized and not typical of what dutch painters would have shown of their homeland.&nbsp; So, a dutch painter seems unlikely.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;ve also found over our years of answering queries that family history tends to be a bit unreliable as to the origin of certain objects.&nbsp; A hand painted dutch scene morphs into &quot;dutch painter who apparently was known for not signing his work&quot;.&nbsp; It rather like a game of telephone where the message can become embellished and distorted by being told multiple times by multiple people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My best guess at this point is that your vase is milk glass and was painted by one of these home painters.&nbsp; I can tell more if you can show me a shot of the bottom of the vase and a shot from the top showing the interior of the vase.&nbsp; I would also guess that your vase is older than 60 years based on the shape of the vase.&nbsp; Looking forward to seeing those photos if you can produce them.</p><p>Don[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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