Pottery With Interesting Mark

Only picked up 3 pieces..there were more with this same mark but didn't want to spend alot on something unfamiliar. Initials are PVK with 2 Geese. A Square with some type of cross.

 

Studio pottery?
Maybe someone who might be French or Swiss in heritage. Just guessing, as that is what came to mind when I saw the mark.

 

Thanks Clutter. I knew it was studio, but not you average "hobbyist". That gives me a starting direction.

 

The symbols look like a coat of arms / family crest type thing. A shield with a cross. The long necked birds over the knights helmet(?) with crown have crests on top of their heads. Peacocks?

I would have bought those solely for the interesting maker's marks too.

 

I agree, probably some type of arms. Those weird birds are emerging from a *crown* on top of a knight's *helmet* or a man's head. As weird as the whole scene is, I wonder if that shield is the man's chest. Why... well the bottom right corner of the shield looks like upper part of an arm; however, with that maltese type cross makes it more likely a shield being held at an angle.

Now for those birds, I'm not sure if they are peacocks, ostriches, geese, cranes... I suspect they are probably peacocks but their relative length and rubbery curving and turning looks more like ostrich maneuvers.

--- Susan

 

Thanks everyone. Still googling with no luck yet.

 

I'm also looking for information about this mark. Will let you know if I find anything. So far, my research led to this thread... and nowhere else. I must have bought one of the vases you left behind.