There is just no way you can take this vase seriously! It’s got everything, and having too much often isn’t a good thing!
The vase itself is so overly juggy, that it’s almost a caricature of a jug - a hugely oversized handle, a curving spout and a neck that looks like a Victorian lady’s waist [...]

There’s just something about pairs of vases that’s scary and these are no exception. What makes it worse is that they’re not really imposing as they’re only four inches tall.
They’ve got that petrolly mother of pearl finish which has even been applied to the base (not sure why, how many people look at the bottom [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]