This vase just shouts “German” at me, I might be wrong but everything about it is germanic in appearance from the robustly rotund body to the chimney neck and the solid straight-edged lip.

Of course none of that makes it attractive, in fact the German’s are pretty famous for some of the worst vase design out there with Scheurich and Fat Lava pretty much guaranteeing them the dodgiest vase reputation in the world.

Making this one worse is that it’s a sizeable chunk of clay standing about 18 inches tall, not something you could hide away in the corner of the room. This is a vase that shouts to be looked at and with it’s gouged leaf design and regimented rows of square indents looking at it is pretty much the last thing you’ll want to do.

Just for the sake of completeness this is marked on the base with 1508/35 and is rumoured to be Knogden… so if anyone offers you a vase with that shape number you’ll know to politely turn them down and not bother asking for pictures.