Your second photo is much more purple on my monitor than your initial photo. Funny, isn't it, how monitors will change colours? I think it might be Hagley Hybrid after all. BTW, there are many Kivistik clematis available in the US, but they are almost impossible to find in Canada. I like them because they are really hardy, and besides, I have Estonian roots. Here is a link that might be useful: New Eden - US grower

Sorry, that should have been Meissen. But thanks for sending me to eBay, I found more incl this one. My vase is 8.75" high, the mark I couldn't figure out I think is "slb". This one is from the same maker, obviously a big difference b/t number 21 and number 612, but look at the price! A couple of smaller ones listed too, but I'm not sure sellers know what they have. I emailed all of them, will let you know what responses I get (if any). Last time I emailed ebay sellers looking for info on my great-great-grandpa's Victrola, eBay told me someone was using my email to spam people. Here is a link that might be useful: mPm pottery vase

Still no answer from A&M. Many more of my hosta have signs of the same problem. It's probably some sclerotenia fungi (Southern blight is sclerotenia rolfsii). There are several others. I'm just figuring out what is what. Apparently, the cool wet spring we had gave the fungi the perfect place to grow. Couple that with several hosta that needed repotting that didn't get it and are too deep in the pot (no enough circulation). Adding bark mulch to my sterile potting soil introduced the pathogen. We had the right temperatures and high humidity that ifungi love in the early to mid spring.with rain every day (same with nematodes) Then we went from 80 degree days to 100 almost immediately, which stressed the plants. That's my working theory, anyway. I'm still trying to identify the exact pathogens I have and if there are any chemical controls After heat treating some plants for nems a couple of weeks ago, I don't think it's a good idea to stress the plants any more than they already are. Bare rooting them at 100 degrees is probably not a good idea. The treatment will kill them if the disease doesn't. I've drenching them with fungicide, and will follow that up with different fungicide in a few days. When it cools off, I'll do what ever I can to treat them. . This is what I found in pots that look perfectly healthy from the top. I found this in Striptease, which I think I indication of another sclerotinia fungus. It's bits of soil and leaf strung together with really thin cottony threadlike material. If I'm guessing correctly, it's sclerotenia sclerotiorum, which is a cousin to southern blight. If I don't hear from A&M by tomorrow afternoon, everything will get a fungicide drench. I'll try to contain it until it cools off and then try to treat. bk

I wondered if it was Van Briggle Pottery, who apparently do art pottery, but they seem to write their whole name on the bottom of their pieces.