Bull Fighting - A Leather Bottle Vase

Bull fighting at the best of times isn’t one of my favourite sports although it’s still performed in Spain to this day. Adorning this this square bottle vase with leather depicting a bull fighting scene doesn’t do much to please me either.
Now call me squeamish as I sit here writing wearing my (leather) shoes and [...]

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Blue Bottle - A Drippy Glazed Vase

I’m not really sure what the point of this lump of stoneware is, whether it was intended for use as a vase or something quite different I don’t know.
Regardless it’s a strange one, it’s close to being an attractive form, but it’s all lumpy bumpy and misshapen. Even the bulbous base is ridged although it’s [...]

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Candle Wax - A Drippy Glazed Bottle

What do you get if you take a bottle, stick a candle in the top and leave it for a few hours to burn? Yes, that’s right, a bottle covered in candle wax. Of course to totally cover the bottle you’d probably need to burn quite a few candles but don’t worry, here’s the solution:
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Purple Gone Wild - A Psychedelic Vase

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 [...]

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Oils And Tea - The Marigold Bottle

I often suspect that some of the vases I own are mass produced. Others although individually unique are made to a certain pattern and only the decoration is individual. That’s not the case with this eleven inch beauty!
There really can’t be too many ceramic bottles around that have been lovingly painted in the manner. If [...]

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10 Green Bottles Hanging on the Wall…

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 [...]

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Out Of Date - 2000 Year Old Copies

These vases are a bit of an enigma, they’re hand made (note the little lead tags on the side, they’re stamped handmade so it was obviously important to the maker we knew this!). They’re also (albeit very blurred) stamped on the base “Copy of Classic, Period 480 BC”.
Well I ask you, surely design has improved [...]

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