This is a strange one. It’s obviously very old as the glazing is crazed all over, but it has no makers marks on the base or anywhere else that I can discern.

Sadly it has the a couple of blemishes, it has the smallest of chips but on the base, so it’s hardly noticeable. In fact I didn’t even see it until I came to take the photograph of it this morning. Then higher up near the top it has a chunk of glaze missing too.

The question is why would anyone make a vase that looks like the trunk of a tree, and having made it why would they paint it in green and white to look like a log covered in moss and why white?

Parhaps it is supposed to look like frost on a cold winters morning, or was brown glaze just too difficult to apply? I suppose in all honesty if it had had a brown base coat it would have made for a very dark vase which would have just looked worse than it does anyway.