Archive for November, 2008

And One For Her - A Girl’s Teddy Bear Vase

I suppose it was inevitable that I’d stumble across this little chunk of hideousness. Having already got a Teddy Bear Vase in blue I should have realised that someone somewhere out there would have one in pink.
It’s so obvious, everything for babies are either blue for boys, pink for girls, or yellow because we don’t [...]

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Sepia landscape - A Brown Painted Vase

You could be excused for thinking this vase is just a little dirty and a good scrub with some hot soapy water would restore it to it’s former glory taking away it’s dull sheen and showing off some bright vibrant colours.
You’d be wrong!
This vase really is as dull as it looks, it’s a decorated with [...]

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A Baseball replacement? - A Rippled Green Vase

This vase is a great shape and weight, it fits the curve of my hand perfectly and is just begging to be dashed to the ground and broken into smithereens. Either that or maybe bowled to someone wielding a baseball bat who could shatter it with one well aimed strike.
Of course I wouldn’t dream of [...]

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Maroon and Gold - A Trophy Vase

I just adore trophy shaped vases for no other reason that it’s so easy to write about them for Ugly Vase. I mean be serious, why does a vase need handles in the first place? If it was large enough to hold several gallons of water then I could understand handles might be useful due [...]

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Muddy Spatter Dots - A Splayed Top Vase

I almost like this little oddity, it’s a great shape, perfect for showing a bunch of flowers splayed out so that the blooms are held in an arch rather than all bunched up with most of the flowers hidden behind the bunch…. at least it would be until you realise that this vase is only [...]

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Germanic Pottery At It’s Worst - A Red Flagon Vase

This vase just shouts “German” at me, I might be wrong but everything about it is germanic in appearance from the robustly rotund body to the chimney neck and the solid straight-edged lip.
Of course none of that makes it attractive, in fact the German’s are pretty famous for some of the worst vase design out [...]

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Brown Glaze & No Glaze - Another Inside Out Vase

I’ve seen one of these vases before (well actually I own one), but I wasn’t expecting to stumble across a second one.
Why anyone took the effort to glaze vases on the inside rather than the outside I don’t know. I mean it must be a night mare to make sure none of the glaze drips [...]

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Unattractive And Tall - A Brown Bottle Vase

You just know this vase was made for ridicule, I mean even the most tolerant person couldn’t find something complimentary to say about it and I can’t think who might want to put it on display or in pride of place in their front room.
Bottle vases are such a waste of space in the first [...]

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Blood Red Glass - A Paper Weight Vase

Is this a vase? Or is it simply a paper weight with a mis-shapen lump of glass dumped on top?
It looks strangely rude to me with it’s thick curved lip leading into a rapidly narrowing funnel. It’s not exactly useful as a vase either, too short, too thin and impossible to clean. Imagine what it’ll [...]

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Unfinished - A plain white vase

I’m almost at a loss for words as to what to say about this vase!
Seriously, it’s not finished, it’s a white reasonably shaped vase with some surface decoration but they forgot to paint it! Surely the raised flower like lumps and bumps should have had some colour? What about a base coat of something other [...]

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