PIE lacquer yellow coloured vases

The PIE style number is not known but Medalta later made them as style no. 92. The vases are finished in a stylized floral decoration consisting of two green stepped triangles hanging from a dull gold band about 2.0 cm. from the rim, each triangle with an orange and yellow flower and a few green leaves on it. The longer floral decoration between the two triangles has five green leaves near the bottom and a five-petal blue flower with an orange eye near the top. The background colour is a sandy (white mottles) yellow, and the vases have a dull gold stripe around the rim and another around the base. They are about 7 5/8 inches high and both are stamped on the bottom with one of PIE’s oxide stamps.

Someone obtained these at a garage sale for the ghastly sum of $1.00! This just goes to show you that you can still get lucky once in a while. Today, now that collectors are becoming more aware of PIE pieces and how hard they are to find, I would not be surprised to find a dealer asking around $100.00 for each.