Help with attribution pictures
 

Dear forum, tell me, this is the author's signature on the painting and it seems to me <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

I, for instance, did not even know in which you Mete onaruzhili something like a signature.
Where, on the vase?

It looks like a signature.

I Do not Know.

The painting is a vase with a pattern on the fabric, maybe it's just an element of this drawing.

I think that there signature, but the thing is very dirty, difficult to read.
And the signature crooked.
Western thing.