A beautiful moon shaped vase made of enamelled glass. The clear body is decorated with gilded and raised white enamel. The star of the vase is the enamelled scene, which is supposed to represent the exploration of the Arctic with a sailing ship and a small rowboat. Around 1870
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'Straw opal' glass vase with uranium glass knop (British, circa 1880).
Attributed to Harry Powell (British, 1853–1922). Whitefriars Glassworks.
Image and text information courtesy The Met.
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Optic Flower Vase by Matthew Seasholtz
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#InternationalPolarBearDay:
Vase In The Form Of Two #PolarBears Inside An Icy Cave
'Makuzu' ware, Miyagawa Kozan workshop,Yokohama, Japan, c.1900-10
porcelain with decoration in underglaze turquoise & brown, H 22.2 cm x D 15.9 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum C.244-1910: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O39341/vase-miyagawa-kozan/
"From the late 19th century, the Makuzu workshop produced porcelain for the Western market. The source of inspiration for this remarkable object was models of polar bears made by the Royal Copenhagen Manufactory. The icy effect was created using experimental glaze techniques."
PS: there is a similar, slightly larger piece in the Khalili Collections:
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Large Vase with Flowers (Josep Mirabent, 1906) (edited)
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Gertrud & Otto Natzler, Teardrop Bottle with Tigereye Glaze, 1963.
Their relationship was highly collaborative: Gertrud created the forms of their earthenware pieces, while Otto formulated and applied the dramatic glazes. The brown, smoky gray, and mottled yellow tigereye glaze fuses with the graceful form of the body, which Otto described as “ascend[ing] slowly upward with a slight curve, as if turning onto itself, only to change direction faintly just before ending.” Via Art Institute of Chicago
Tear bottles, or lachrymatory, were prevalent in ancient Roman times, when mourners filled glass vials with tears and placed them in burial tombs as symbols of love and respect.
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Carnation
Vladimir Fedorovich Sidoruk (1925-1997, Ukrainian)
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▪︎ A Vase of Corn Lilies and Heliotrope.
Artist: Martin Johnson Heade (United States, 1819–1904)
Date: 1863
Medium: Oil on canvas
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Red earthenware vase with a floral decoration (1880) by John Bennett (American, 1840–1907).
Image and text information courtesy The Met.
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Glass vase by Josef Inwald, 1930, with a depiction of "The Loss of Revenge 2nd September 1591" by Oswald W Brierly, 1881
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Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648-1972)
"Flowers in a decorated vase"
Oil on canvas
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Bronze Vase with Roses, Pedro de Camprobin, 1640-60
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