CategoriesTableware, Vessels, and Objects
Vase
A vessel taller than it is wide, made to hold flowers or to stand alone as decoration, in porcelain, stoneware, glass and metal.
64 works · 10 related artists
About
The vase is where form and ornament meet most directly. Chinese potters made the meiping, a high-shouldered vase for a single branch of plum blossom, and Ming and Qing porcelain vases set the standard for Europe's courts. In Meiji Japan, workshops such as Hayashi Kodenji's in Nagoya made cloisonné enamel vases of extraordinary finesse. Christopher Dresser drew on Peruvian and Japanese pottery for the vases he designed at Linthorpe around 1880, and Charles Catteau gave Belgian Art Deco vases for Boch Frères bold stylised animals.
Mid-century Nordic ceramicists took the vase in new directions: Axel Salto covered stoneware in budding, sprouting surfaces, and Berndt Friberg threw tiny, perfectly glazed forms at Gustavsberg. Betty Woodman later split and painted vases so they read as both pot and picture. Look at the base, the balance of proportions and how the glaze responds to the form.
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