Standing at just over a foot tall this is such a classic vase shaped vase it would be hard to go wrong. Of course it wouldn’t be featured on this website if that wasn’t exactly what had happened!
Firstly the colours, it’s flowers, but far to bright and garish, pink roses, yellow flowers that just look [...]

I couldn’t resist picking this vase up and not just because it was at a ridiculously low price as the owners were desperate to get rid of it. It is so like the very first vase I owned that there was no way I could pass it by.
It’s almost a twin, except that it’s much [...]

If you like psychedelic vases then this is the one for you! It’s not my cup of tea though, it makes me dizzy just to look at it!
It’s a very hippy type vase though, but I think if you looked at it too long it’d hurt your eyes! Just what type of flowers you’d put [...]

I really worry about some people, and today I’m worrying about two in particular - the person that designed this vase and the person that bought it! (In that statement I exclude myself on the grounds I only acquired it for it’s unadultarated ugliness )
It’s about twelve inches tall and about as attracive a [...]

This is a fantastic vase, and one of the few I’m close to liking. Denby of course is highly collectable, whether it be their dinner services or other products. Whether this vase actually fits into the collectible cachet I really don’t know but I’m sure there’s someone out there that would actually like it.
Sadly the [...]

It’s like the mouse vase - another power station cooling tower! I don’t know why anyone thinks this is a great shape for a vase but it appears to be quite popular.
It’s a horrible shape once you’ve used the vase and are trying to clean it though. No matter how much you try it’s [...]

A great vase this one, if you have tall flowers. Ample height at 12″ tall and large enough to hold a good supply of water.
It’s a West German vase, and a pretty popular shape. With the backstamp 517-30 a quick search of the Internet reveals it’s a pretty standard size.
It’s in great condition, there’s just [...]

Well this is a strange one! It has absolutely nothing to recomend it apart from it’s ugliness!
It’s just a bottle! It’s green glass reminiscent of a beer bottle except that it’s elongated and squared off at the bottom. Standing at 17″ tall a vase of this stature should be making a statement. All this one [...]

Yet another useless Vase! It’s made of wood so using it for it’s intended purpose would ruin it…. unless anyone knows what you’d use a vase for other than to put flowers in!
Maybe I’m a bit behind the times but making a vase of anything porous just doesn’t cut the mustard. However I mustn’t complain [...]

So what’s this blog all about? Why the strange name? Who cares about Ugly Vases anyway?
Well it goes back a couple of years to when my friend Mark listed a vase on eBay which he later described as a “monstrosity”. Not perhaps to everyone’s taste, but definitely an acquired one. A Murano glass vase [...]