You don’t see many wooden vases, for the fairly obvious reason that they’re not waterproof plus the rot. Wood is about the worst material you could possibly make a vase from.

Not so this one though, it’s wood cleverly wrapped around a ceramic pot. It’s only about five inches tall but it’s quite cute, although being wood there are obvious signs of wear with the odd chip, scrape, scratch and loss of varnish.

Not only is it made from wood, but someone carefully laminated different coloured wood together before machining it into a barrel shape formed to hold the pot inside.

Although the work to construct this is admirable the end result doesn’t really justify the effort. At the end of the day it’s just some rather odd looking lumps of wood glued around a pot. It looks more like a high school child’s project than something you’d be willing to pay good money for.