Unknown planter...old?

[Flex68]

This is definitely not MD related, but I have at least 3 items that I have picked up over the past few years in antique malls that I have been unable to ID.
This is one of those, so I am posting here hoping for some help...



Ivory-colored, handpainted planter with a very Art Deco look and feel to it.
Marked on the base “Freida” by the artist, and covered in crazing.
The paint is rust-colored and depicts the same motif on opposite sides of the piece: birds, mountains, and trees. The trees, themselves, give it an Oriental flavor/appearance, though the piece is unmarked… and Freida is not a typical Far Eastern name!

The piece measures 6” in overall width x >5” high, with a 3.5” mouth and base.

The interior has a distinct ‘texture’ to it, reminiscent of paint runs, and the walls are quite thin. It is glazed, and gives the impression of being too high quality to have just been someone’s ceramics project.

I can locate nothing similar in online searches...likely not that valuable, but piqued my interest due to style and apparent age!


Anyone got any ideas? I can post more pics, if needed/desired....
Thanks!

 

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[Flex68]

Prolly should have put the glazed brown jug up first......

 

[Bramblefind]

Is it signed "Freida" or "Frieda"? I found this:

https://olioboard.com/items/3002117-hand-thrown-raku-vase-by-frieda

The Raku pottery technique has its origins in Japan and Raku is created by a specific ceramic firing process that uses both fire and smoke to create unique patterns and designs. Hand-thrown Raku vase or jar with a high gloss finish and an underlying random pattern. Interior is glazed, but water test before using the vase. Underside signed "Frieda." Dates to the 1980s, but little is known of the ceramicist.


And this-

4012: Studio pottery bowl on pedestal Frieda : Lot 4012

Studio pottery bowl on pedestal in a brown mottled glaze designed with incised iconography, signed Frieda on base, 9''h x 14''w

 

[Flex68]

Is it signed "Freida" or "Frieda"?

Thanks, Bramblefind. I appreciate your efforts to help me out.
Unfortunately, tho, it definitely appears older than the first possibility (1980s), and is very different than that style of vase.
Also not pottery like the second possibility.

And it is signed "Freida"

 

[Fritos56]

I have no clue. Don't know of any pottery factory by that name. That's like I have a painting of a lady in a dress that is art deco era around the 1920s by someone called Doukay. Can't find anything on the artist. You might search for women potters of the 1920s or 30s.