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The Stockholm Alhambra Vase, like the other extant Alhambra vases were likely used for decorative purposes given their scale and winged handles, designed for lateral movements instead of for carrying water. [9] Collectively, the Alhambra vases are not meant to hold anything in particular.
Detail of two gazelles from an Alhambra vase, c. 1400. The best known and most impressive examples of Andalucian wares are the Alhambra vases, a number of very large vases made to stand in niches in the Alhambra in Granada, and perhaps elsewhere. These are very atypical in Islamic pottery in having only a decorative function, with no practical ...
Historically, in a Japanese tea ceremony room, vases used to be made out of cut bamboo in order to match the ambiance of the room. Precious vases were offered as gifts to feudal daimyō lords. Starting in the late 16th century Momoyama period, Iga ware water vases with characteristic "ear" lugs appeared. The ear lugs added prestige to a vessel ...
Lighting is readily available and often economical, from glass and brass to wood and ceramic. "Classical lamp bodies like urn, gourd, and jar shapes are hiding all over thrift shops," reveals ...
Vases generally share a similar shape. The foot or the base may be bulbous, flat, carinate, [1] or another shape. The body forms the main portion of the piece. Some vases have a shoulder, where the body curves inward, a neck, which gives height, and a lip, where the vase flares back out at the top. Some vases are also given handles.
After several years of experiments, Wedgwood began to sell jasperware in the late 1770s, at first as small objects, but from the 1780s adding large vases. It was extremely popular, and after a few years many other potters devised their own versions. Wedgwood continues to make it into the 21st century.