Dotty Gold Decoration - A Frosted Glass Vase

It’s getting chilly in the mornings at this time of year, and there’s quite enought frosted glass around on my car and house windows let along having a vase made with frosted glass.
I suppose it makes sense to have frosted glass to hide any gunk and dirt that gathers inside the vase, but haven’t these [...]

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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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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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Worse Than The Last - Another Murano Vase

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 [...]

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Squares in Green Glass - A Swirling Vase

I couldn’t resist this vase when I first saw it, it’s not particularly attractive, in fact quite the opposite. What intrigued me was the way that it’s been made.
It started off life as a flat piece of glass, with loads of squares inside each other, starting from tiny but getting bigger and bigger as you [...]

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A Silly Little Handle - A Red Glass Jug

There a nice reds, and there are other reds, and this vase is sadly one of the other reds.
It should be a great little red vase, but the red needed to be a little deeper and why the heck did the make find it necessary to stick a silly little handle on the side? All [...]

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Lots Of Dusting - A Blue Glass Vase

There’s something surreal about this vase. Tt’s the type of blue you’d expect to see on the top of a police car with a flashing light inside it! It’s such a deep and dark blue it’s hard to find a setting where it doesn’t overpower the everything that surrounds it.
At the same time there’s [...]

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A Great Lamp Stand - Not A Great Vase

A strangly shape for a vase, this would be more akin to a candlestick or the base for a lamp! Although it’s got a great flared rim the neck of this vase is so slender it would barely hold much more than a single stem.
Although the vase is blue it has an unusual white interior, [...]

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A Vase Shaped Vase - Green Glass Vase

It must be green glass day today! I’m actually quite fond of this little vase and wasn’t going to talk about it on here, but I just can’t find a reason not to!
There’s just something about it that makes me think it must be ugly because I can’t work out why I like it.
There’s nothing [...]

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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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