Featured Unknown porcelain vase ???

Had this for many years. Unusual shape to me. No marks. 9 1/4" tall,4 1/2" at widest point, raised gilding on part, crazing all over, hand-painted iris, fairly heavy porcelain. Any ideas on origin ??

 

Welcome, chipperdoug! Looks like a Nippon vase to me. Would date to circa 1900.
Don

 

Thanks for the input Don !!

 

Is it porcelain or pottery? Does light show through it?
Patd

 

Light does not show through. Does that make it pottery??
I'm no expert !! Thanks for helping me.

 

Yes, porcelain is translucent.

 

This is not heavy porcelain but rather pottery. Nippon vases can range from paper thin to fairly thick walled. The paper thin are more likely to be porcelain and are more highly valued, partly because they were much more delicate and fewer survived.
Don

 

from the lines of the adornments it reminds me of Riessner Stellmacher. or Amphora Turn-Teplitz.

 

This actually looks like real Moriage and not enamel paint.

 

I believe it is real moriage.

 

Welcome, chipperdoug.

 

Thanks !!