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2. Celery vase - Wikipedia

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   A press glass celery vase, produced between 1850–1870, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A celery vase is type of glass tableware. Developed during the Victorian era, celery vases displayed celery as centerpieces during meals. Farmers began cultivating celery in eastern England after its introduction in the early 19th ...

3. List of glassware - Wikipedia

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   Old fashioned glass, traditionally, for a simple cocktail or liquor "on the rocks" or "neat". Contemporary American "rocks" glasses may be much larger, and used for a variety of beverages over ice. Shot glass, a small glass for up to four ounces of liquor. The modern shot glass has a thicker base and sides than the older whiskey glass. Water glass

4. Amphora - Wikipedia

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   Silver amphora-rhyton with zoomorphic handles, c. 500 BC, Vassil Bojkov Collection (Sofia, Bulgaria) An amphora (/ ˈ æ m f ər ə /; Ancient Greek: ἀμφορεύς, romanized: amphoreús; English pl. amphorae or amphoras) is a type of container [1] with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and ...

5. Cage cup - Wikipedia

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   The Lycurgus Cup, lit from behind, with a modern foot and rim.. The function of cage cups is debated. The inscriptions strongly suggest that they were cups to be used, and perhaps passed around, for ceremonial drinking at feasts, but it has been suggested that the shape of the out-turned rim of the beakers and the missing stand of all known vessels means that all diatreta were like the example ...

6. Vase - Wikipedia

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   Vases generally share a similar shape. The foot or the base may be bulbous, flat, carinate, [1] or another shape. The body forms the main portion of the piece. Some vases have a shoulder, where the body curves inward, a neck, which gives height, and a lip, where the vase flares back out at the top. Some vases are also given handles.

7. Portland Vase - Wikipedia

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   The vase measures about 25 centimetres (9.8 in) high and 18 cm (7.1 in) in diameter. It is made of violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass cameo making two distinct scenes, depicting seven human figures, plus a large snake, and two bearded and horned heads below the handles, marking the break between the scenes.