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maybe 4" high ceramic containers too small for
vases and without lids. They are also too oddly shaped to easily drink
from,having a rounded flair just under the lip on top, a 1" waist and
another rounded flair near the bottom before forming a truncated
pedestal. Made in Italy, they are beautifully painted under the glaze,
with almost calligraphic writing around the middles. One says Una
Rasino, the other Una Di Tuzia
I have uploaded a picture to my Flickr site .Any ideas?



http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixwench/

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In article >, news >
wrote:

> maybe 4" high ceramic containers too small for
> vases and without lids. They are also too oddly shaped to easily drink
> from,having a rounded flair just under the lip on top, a 1" waist and
> another rounded flair near the bottom before forming a truncated
> pedestal. Made in Italy, they are beautifully painted under the glaze,
> with almost calligraphic writing around the middles. One says Una
> Rasino, the other Una Di Tuzia
> I have uploaded a picture to my Flickr site .Any ideas?
>
>
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixwench/

Uno means "One" or "an" in Italian. I think the other words are simply
proper nouns. Try http://translate.google.com or just googling those
terms.

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"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:34:11 -0400, news wrote:
>
>> maybe 4" high ceramic containers too small for
>> vases and without lids. They are also too oddly shaped to easily drink
>> from,having a rounded flair just under the lip on top, a 1" waist and
>> another rounded flair near the bottom before forming a truncated
>> pedestal. Made in Italy, they are beautifully painted under the glaze,
>> with almost calligraphic writing around the middles. One says Una
>> Rasino, the other Una Di Tuzia
>> I have uploaded a picture to my Flickr site .Any ideas?
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixwench/
>
> Is the phone really supposed to be an integral part of the picture?
>


it gave me a sense of the size of the items. At first I thought they were
much larger, until I saw the phone.

BB Italian translation, what are these items and what do they say?
 

"news" > ha scritto nel messaggio
>
> maybe 4" high ceramic containers too small for
> vases and without lids. They are also too oddly shaped to easily drink
> from,having a rounded flair just under the lip on top, a 1" waist and
> another rounded flair near the bottom before forming a truncated
> pedestal. Made in Italy, they are beautifully painted under the glaze,
> with almost calligraphic writing around the middles. One says Una
> Rasino, the other Una Di Tuzia
> I have uploaded a picture to my Flickr site .Any ideas?

You are missing the tops. They are containers for saving things in, similar
to some I have for herbs. Tuzio means flake, but rasino means nothing to
me. Rosino also means nothing to me. I am wondering if they weren't forms
of tobacco? I know flake is a tobacco term. Rasino/rosino could be a
tobacco type, I suppose.

BB Italian translation, what are these items and what do they say?
 

news wrote:

> maybe 4" high ceramic containers too small for
> vases and without lids. They are also too oddly shaped to easily drink
> from,having a rounded flair just under the lip on top, a 1" waist and
> another rounded flair near the bottom before forming a truncated
> pedestal. Made in Italy, they are beautifully painted under the glaze,
> with almost calligraphic writing around the middles. One says Una
> Rasino, the other Una Di Tuzia
> I have uploaded a picture to my Flickr site .Any ideas?
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixwench/

Apart from "una", the female form of "a" or "an", there isn't a single
italian word there. Or they're written in some local slang or they're
written in another language or Di Tuzio and Rasino are surnames: then they
could mean two female persons from these two families: "one (female) from
the Rasino family" and "one (female) from the Di Tuzio family". Who knows?
From their look and size I would say they're some kind of kitchen ornament,
those where one just puts some dried ears of wheat with part of the stem as
an ornament and a "portafortuna" (lucky charm) since wheat is supposed to
bring wealth.
--
ViLco
Let the liquor do the thinking

BB Italian translation, what are these items and what do they say?
 

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:57:43 +0200, "ViLco" > wrote:

> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/phoenixwench/
>
> Apart from "una", the female form of "a" or "an", there isn't a single
> italian word there. Or they're written in some local slang or they're
> written in another language or Di Tuzio and Rasino are surnames: then they
> could mean two female persons from these two families: "one (female) from
> the Rasino family" and "one (female) from the Di Tuzio family". Who knows?
> From their look and size I would say they're some kind of kitchen ornament,
> those where one just puts some dried ears of wheat with part of the stem as
> an ornament and a "portafortuna" (lucky charm) since wheat is supposed to
> bring wealth.

Too bad they aren't wider at the top, because they'd be good for
keeping salt & pepper if they were easier to get your fingers inside.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.