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  Vase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The vase is an open container, often used to hold cut flowers.
The vase is often decorated and thus used to extend the beauty of its contents.
Vases are defined as having a certain anatomy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vase   (206 words)

  
 Portland Vase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Portland Vase is a first-century Roman glass vase, which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.
On February 7, 1845, the vase was shattered to pieces by one William Lloyd, who had drunkenly thrown a nearby sculpture on top of the case smashing both it and the vase to pieces.
The vase was pieced together, with fair success, but after the Duke's descendants sold the vase to the museum in 1945, a second and better reconstruction was done.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portland_Vase   (561 words)

  
 Greek Vase Shapes
The name of this vase means "carrier of washing-water", and the vase was used only in ritual contexts: at weddings, to carry the water for the bridal bath; in funerals, to carry the water for washing the corpse of unmarried persons and to mark their graves.
This vase was a flask used for toilet oils, perfume, or condiments, and also appears in funerary contexts, where it was used to pour libations for the dead or was left on the grave as an offering.
This vase was a small flask with a narrow neck used to hold and pour oil; it is often shown in Attic vase painting as being suspended from the wrist of an athlete, or looped by a string and hung on the wall.
mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /vases/vase_shapes.html   (471 words)

  
 vase. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The pottery vase was anciently employed as a container for water (a hydria), wine (an amphora), or oil (a lekythus), or for mixing and serving wine and water (a crater).
Vases or their fragments discovered in burial chambers and through excavations in various countries serve as records of the manners, customs, and history of their peoples.
Bronze and brass are much employed for vases in Asia, as well as porcelain, carved jade, and crystal in China and enamelware in the Satsuma and Kutani vases of Japan.
www.bartleby.com /65/va/vase.html   (318 words)

  
 Vase
Go to edit - copy, click on your vase image and add a new layer called picture, then go to edit - paste as a new selection and place your image centered on your vase.
With your vase layer still active, apply the same cutout, but change the vertical and horizontal setting to -9.
With your vase layer still active, add a new layer called innerrim.
www.geocities.com /burntout4_72406/Vase.html   (542 words)

  
 The Portland Vase
This article discusses the Portland Vase which dates back to the end of the first century B.C. The Portland Vase dates to the end of the first century B.C. to the beginning of the first century A.D. The Portland vase is a glass amphora made during the rule of the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar.
The vase was next acquired by a Scottish architect living in Italy, James Byres, who in the early 1780’s sold it to Sir William Hamilton and Englishman with a rather interesting background.
Margaret’s son, the duke of Portland, purchased the ancient Roman vase and in 1810, after a family friend broke off the vase’s base, lent it to the British Museum, where it presumably would be safe and could be enjoyed by a wide audience.
tx.essortment.com /portlandvase_rmtt.htm   (807 words)

  
 ArtLex on Vases
Vase, painted terra cotta, 20.5 x 15.5 cm, Louvre.
Among the types of Greek vases are the amphora, panathenaic amphora, hydria, pelike, volute and calyx kraters, lekythos, and kylix.
Greek vase for cooling wine when it is partly submerged inside of a krater filled with icey water.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/uv/vase.html   (411 words)

  
 Tiffin Pairpoint Verlys Blenko glass vase Steuben Hawkes Wayne Husted Pairpoint Durand Kimball Tiffany Phoenix ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This vase is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks but it does have a few light scratches on the surface.
Vase is in excellent condition except for a bit of residue on the inside of the vase and some adhesive residue on the neck which can easily be removed.
The vase has a polished pontil and is marked "2011-12 Dec 0" and there's a "K" in the middle for "Kimball" This vase is in excellent condition.
www.glasshound.com /solditems.html   (3053 words)

  
 Perseus Vase: Florence 4209   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On the reverse of the vase is a pair of griffins, a boar being attacked by a lion, and a lion attacking a bull.
On the foot of the vase is a narrow frieze depicting the battle of Pygmies and Cranes, mentioned in the Iliad (Hom.
The vase had been broken in antiquity and scattered over a wide area; between 1844 and 1845 François is said to have excavated an area the size of the Coliseum looking for further fragments of the vase.
www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vaseindex?entry=Florence+4209   (4554 words)

  
 UU/IT/VASE
The VASE framework was written by Björn Andersson during a Master´s Thesis.
VASE is based on VRT - Virtual Reality Toolkit written by Stefan Seipel and Streep a Shared State Repositry written by Mikael Lindkvist.
The VASE framework is designed to make it is easy to create new plug-ins and integrating them in a customized distributed virtual environment.
www.it.uu.se /research/project/vase   (315 words)

  
 How to make a betta fish vase
The plainness of mason jars, jelly glasses and other small areas often cause the Betta to lose his appeal to the owner but there is now another option that allows for creativity in the owner and a lovely habitat for the Betta.
Once you have all your materials, be sure to rinse the vase and rocks well to remove any dirt or dust that could be detrimental to your fish.
On the other hand, if you place another Beta vase next to the first, the fish will show their true beauty as they pass each other and flare their fins and tail completely out.
scsc.essortment.com /betafishvase_rhpv.htm   (1042 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Iraqi museum to repair broken 5,000-year-old vase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The vase is named for Warka, formerly the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk where it was believed to have been made.
The 3-foot-tall, alabaster vase has five tiers of carvings that art historians say are among the first narrative pictures.
The vase was vulnerable because it was in a workshop, where it was being restored.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-06-17-vase-usat_x.htm   (494 words)

  
 Easy Vase Tutorial
Vector (big thanks to Syn for that nickname for the Vector tool!) I had received my weekly WET from one of the groups that I am in and, as usual, was playing around with different things.
All of a sudden I had a vase and when I sent it in to the group I had several requests for a tutorial.
This vase is very easy to do ~~ the hard part was recreating what I had done because I had fooled around with so many different things **giggle** So, by popular demand, here we go.
moonsdesigns.com /tutorials/vase.html   (1224 words)

  
 History of the Jack In The Pulpit Glass Vase
Some of the vases have rounded backs and pointed fronts, others have crimped edges to the trumpet and the earliest ones all seem to have the back pulled in as per the 1854 style found in the Stevens and Williams pattern book for that year.
The vases were made in a multitude of colours and some had very attractive applied chainwork with applied petal leaf bases.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit vases come in a full range of shapes, sizes, colours and finish and possibly the most sort after are those in Cranberry or in Peachblow.
1st.glassman.com /articles/jackpulpit.html   (1482 words)

  
 McCoy Mania - vintage McCoy pottery
This gorgeous vase in soft colors has a factory flaw at the top as shown, otherwise in excellent condition.
This vase from the Butterfly line in lavender has great detail and is in excellent condition.
This early stoneware vase in matte white has only a very faint area of crazing and overall is in excellent condition.
www.mccoymania.com   (464 words)

  
 Loetz Moser Powolny Kralik Pallme-Konig Glass vase Antique Rindskopf Harrach Egermann Palda Bohemian Carneol ...
This on is a four handled vase with 4 gold prunts and rigaree running up the neck.
The vase is cased in clear crystal and has a polished pontil.
Vase is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks.
www.glasshound.com /bohemian.html   (1214 words)

  
 Vase Gems, Glass Marbles, Glass Ice Cubes , Mosaic , Sea Shells , Polished Rocks, Stones, Water Gems, Crystal Accents
Vase Gems Cobalt Blue 17 MM Glass (40 pieces) $1.75 pkg.
Vase Gems Clear Luster Glass 17 mm (40) $1.79 pkg.
Vase Gems Opal White 17mm Glass (40 pieces) $2.28 pkg.
www.save-on-crafts.com /vasgemmarsto.html   (607 words)

  
 A broken vase old Cathay
I showed my vase to an old Chinese couple who live in our community and they were amazed that I even had it because, as they said, it was against the law to bring artifacts out of Old China across the border into New China after a certain date.
The scene depicted on the vase is of an old Chinese matriarch watching her son, or son-in-law leave on his "manhood" trip.
The marks on the bottom of the vase contain six marks, but they are arranged in three columns of two instead of two columns of three as your symbol charts indicate.
www.gotheborg.com /qa/oldcathay.shtml   (978 words)

  
 vase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Portland Vase is arguably the most famous and certainly the most influential piece of ancient...
Vase painters were selected to represent a mix of well-known and lesser-known artists, first, to make students aware of the range in quality of vase...
Vase painters articulated individual forms by incising the slip or by adding...
www.hotvsnot.com /search/?s=vase   (346 words)

  
 Portland vase on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The mythological scene probably represents Peleus and Thetis accompanied by Poseidon on one side and Aphrodite on the other; on the bottom there is a bust of a young man in a Phrygian cap, possibly Paris.
The vase, found in an ancient marble sarcophagus excavated at Monte del Grano near Rome in the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623-44), was placed in the palace of the Barberini family.
The vase has been widely reproduced and copied; the most famous replicas were made (c.1789) in jasper ware by Josiah Wedgwood.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Prtlndvs.asp   (352 words)

  
 Vase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Like this vase, his designs were frequently very sparse and simple.
This vase emerged from his extensive knowledge of Japanese ceramics.
Stamped with Dresser's signature, this vase was one of hundreds of shapes he designed for Linthorpe between 1879 and 1882.
www.nelson-atkins.org /collections/decorative/detail/vase1880.htm   (165 words)

  
 wedding vases, native american art: Indian Sun Gallery
The vase is a single vessel with two spouts and symbolizes the man and woman living separate lives who are now coming together, in the sacred ceremony of marriage, to become one.
The vase is a sacred treasure to be kept in the family and often is treated as an heirloom to be passed on to the family.
During the ceremony the vase is filled with water that has been blessed by the tribal medicine man. First, the bride drinks from one spout and then, after turning the vase clockwise, gives it to the groom, who drinks from the opposite spout.
www.indiansun.net /weddingvases.htm   (284 words)

  
 Optical Effects Gallery Vase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Near the bottom of the vase, apply amethyst Gallery Glass and brush upward with a brush again, varying the length of the strokes and feathering the color as you go.
Wrap around the throat of the vase twice and tie in a square knot, tying one loop of the knot in the loop of the magenta square knot to keep the knots together.
Where you have taped the wire to the vase at the bottom and at the lip, apply some of the Stix-all to the vase and the wire to secure.
www.benfranklinstores.com /newpage/projects/l10/optical.htm   (640 words)

  
 Glass vase wholesale
The extensive selection of glass vases offered by Couronne Company provides wonderful vase containers for a variety of floral arrangements.
If you are a florist or simply searching for the perfect glass vase design for an event or wedding, you can find it here.
With a selection including bud vases, bulb vases, terrariums, wide mouth floral vases, narrow opening floral vases and more, our selection of vases has something for everyone.
www.glassnow.com /glass_vase_wholesale.htm   (135 words)

  
 TheFA.com - The FA Vase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
FA VASE: Cammell Laird produced a stirring second half comeback to make the semi-finals for the first time ever.
THE FA VASE: The draw for the semi-finals of The FA Vase were made at Soho Square on Monday morning.
THE FA VASE: We bring you the results from The FA Vase Quarter-Finals during a weather affected weekend of football.
www.thefa.com /TheFACup/TheFAVase   (91 words)

  
 Vase
Vase (n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase.
Vase (n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden.
Vase (n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
linkspider.serversystems.net /dictionary/lookup/vase   (163 words)

  
 VASE Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
VASE is the only art event of its kind in the nation.
Students are provided the opportunity to bring artworks created in their art classes to a regional event where they are interviewed by a certified juror who evaluates their work based on a standards based rubric and their understanding of the art processes involved in the development of their artwork.
To participate in VASE teachers must be a member in good standing with the Texas Art Education Association (TAEA) and submit all required participation information online at http://vase.taea.org.
sd1.ccisd.net /vase   (1533 words)

  
 Silver Vase
By using this Silver Vase web site (the "Silver Vase Site") you agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy, and you further acknowledge that you are at least eighteen (18) years old.
It is Silver Vase's policy that personal information, such as your name, postal and email addresses, telephone number, account number and credit card number is private and confidential.
By using the Silver Vase Site you agree that personal information will not be released to third parties except to further the specific purposes for which you provide the information, such as confirming credit history with credit agencies.
www.silvervase.com /privacy.asp   (1095 words)

  
 Easter Decoupage Vase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Apply the strip vertically to the vase, starting at the top, and making sure the opposite end wraps slightly over the bottom of the vase.
Choose a different colored strip and apply to vase parallel to first strip, with a slight space between them at the widest part of the vase, and overlapping slightly where it narrows.
Tear the remaining tissue strips into 2-inch or 3-inch lengths and apply horizontally around the vase, overlapping ends and leaving a gap between the colors.
www.michaels.com /art/online/projectsheet?pid=e00683   (386 words)

  
 Portland vase
The vase, found in an ancient marble sarcophagus excavated at Monte del Grano near Rome in the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623–44), was placed in the palace of the Barberini family.
Barberini vase - Barberini vase: see Portland vase.
vase - vase, vessel of pottery, glass, metal, stone, wood, or synthetic material.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0839811.html   (326 words)

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