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<p>[QUOTE="Carnivant, post: 9862728, member: 87774"]Oh yeah no problem. I'll include some below.</p><p><br /></p><p>More generally speaking, I am looking at the style of the iguana, the way its painted/glazed, and the material of the dish. For example, I have found some orange-based iguana dishes from Denmark, but they tend to be a lot glossier, and the feet of the iguanas never seem as well defined. Doesn't mean it's not Danish--just that I haven't found a closely comparable one from that particular country.</p><p><br /></p><p>And in regards to the material of the dish... it just seems Central American to me, with most iguana stuff seemingly coming out of Mexico specifically. However, I am no expert, hence why I said Mexico was my assumption. x) </p><p><br /></p><p>All of the following are signed by different Mexican artists (none having anything close to the signature on my piece though):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]494524[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494525[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494527[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494528[/ATTACH] </p><p>(Jorge, Gonzalez, Amar, OOAK, and Macias)</p><p><br /></p><p>When looking for images, I also found this unsigned piece, which I thought I should include as well. The Etsy lister says it is Mexican and from the 1950s. What stood out to me was that the base colour of the ceramic looks similar to mine. Now, being unsigned, the seller could have misidentified it, but I thought it might be helpful to include an example of the base colour as well.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]494529[/ATTACH] </p><p>(<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1746098835/mexican-pottery-vase-handmade-iguana" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1746098835/mexican-pottery-vase-handmade-iguana" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/1746098835/mexican-pottery-vase-handmade-iguana</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carnivant, post: 9862728, member: 87774"]Oh yeah no problem. I'll include some below. More generally speaking, I am looking at the style of the iguana, the way its painted/glazed, and the material of the dish. For example, I have found some orange-based iguana dishes from Denmark, but they tend to be a lot glossier, and the feet of the iguanas never seem as well defined. Doesn't mean it's not Danish--just that I haven't found a closely comparable one from that particular country. And in regards to the material of the dish... it just seems Central American to me, with most iguana stuff seemingly coming out of Mexico specifically. However, I am no expert, hence why I said Mexico was my assumption. x) All of the following are signed by different Mexican artists (none having anything close to the signature on my piece though): [ATTACH=full]494524[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494525[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494527[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]494528[/ATTACH] (Jorge, Gonzalez, Amar, OOAK, and Macias) When looking for images, I also found this unsigned piece, which I thought I should include as well. The Etsy lister says it is Mexican and from the 1950s. What stood out to me was that the base colour of the ceramic looks similar to mine. Now, being unsigned, the seller could have misidentified it, but I thought it might be helpful to include an example of the base colour as well. [ATTACH=full]494529[/ATTACH] ([URL]https://www.etsy.com/listing/1746098835/mexican-pottery-vase-handmade-iguana[/URL])[/QUOTE]
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