I just couldn’t resist buying this vase, even though I had to import it from the US. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and I don’t think anyone ever will again!
It comes with a great story, the sellers mother had it on display for years and when the daughter inherited it she discovered the [...]

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 [...]

Now someone somewhere is really having a laugh with these two! Any pretence at aesthetics has been well and truly ignored and it’s definitely a case of over decoration gone well and truly wrong.
I was given them for Christmas by Mark (He seems to be a major culprit in adding to my collection). When I [...]

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 [...]

I’ve several vases that have the strange petrol-on-water like finish but these take it to a new dimension. They’re green glass vases, but are covered in iridescence from the finish.
They’re not quite a pair in that they have slightly different lustre, but obviously came from the same source.
I’m guessing these are mass produced, I have [...]

Sometimes an Ugly Vase isn’t designed to be that way… it just ended up like it
That’s what happened with this one.
The design has the petrol on water effect common to some of my other vases. It’s made by embedding glass fragments and gold leaf into the glass while it’s being blown. It’s one [...]

We now move on to the truly hideous! It’s very rare that you find a vase which is entirely replusive but we at Ugly Vase have acheived the near impossible.
I’m struggling to find a good thing to say about this vase: The over the top raised red rose and the grotesque leaf design which grows [...]

The next vase in my collection is more cute and unloved than pure ugly.
Having said that it’s not the most beautiful vase I’ve ever seen, if you imagine a power station cooling tower it’ll give you an idea of it’s shape.
Green pottery with a leaf design and three mice running around the sides - it [...]

My next discovery was a vase which I once described as “simply dipped neck first into a pot of paint and stood back up the right way to dry, how simple is that to produce a quality collectable”. Mark who I purchased the vase from was aghast and made the comment “Christopher Dresser would turn [...]

The second vase in my collection was also purchased from Mark and his title of “Ugly Item of the Week” made it a must have purchase. With the acquisition of this vase I now had a “collection”, albeit a collection of two, but it was a start. With the “Ugly” description my collection also had [...]