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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 ...
The Rubens Vase, Walters Art Museum A 1640-1652 print after Rubens' drawing. The Rubens Vase is a Late Antique or early Byzantine hardstone carving of a single piece of agate in the form of a vase, named after a later owner, Peter Paul Rubens, (from 1619 to 1626), [1] who in Flanders made a pen drawing of it, which is now held in the Hermitage Museum. [2]
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.
Glazed earthenware vase, Rookwood Pottery, ca. 1900. American art pottery (sometimes capitalized) refers to aesthetically distinctive hand-made ceramics in earthenware and stoneware from the period 1870-1950s. Ranging from tall vases to tiles, the work features original designs, simplified shapes, and experimental glazes and painting techniques.
The pinnacle of the factory's output was the two intricately decorated "Rhinoceros" vases which were advertised by the works as being the largest single-piece porcelain objects in existence (one of which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the other of which is in the Clifton Park Museum in Rotherham) and a large exquisite dessert service ...
The neo-Attic vase found on the Lungotevere in Sassia. The Torlonia Vase or Cesi-Albani-Torlonia Vase is a colossal and celebrated neo-Attic Roman white marble vase, 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) tall, made in the 1st century BCE, which has passed through several prominent collections of antiquities before coming into the possession of the Princes Torlonia in Rome.
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