Specimen vase

Specimen vase

Sky-blue-glass specimen vase, with a clear-glass stem. Vases of this sort were for holding a single ‘specimen’ flower. The stem and pedestal foot are broken off.
Milk-glass vase

Milk-glass vase

Blue milk-glass vase, moulded with drapery or ribbons and hanging flowers or berries. The pedestal base is broken off.
Specimen Vase

Specimen Vase

Many different colours of glass are brought together in this specimen vase (for a single flower), the top of which has broken off. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
Tiny Chinese Specimen Vase

Tiny Chinese Specimen Vase

Tiny white ceramic specimen vase, painted with red floral decoration, made for the Chinese export market. This was one of three oriental vases discarded after the death of Mary Everett in 1908, probably because her daughters did not share her tastes. Other crockery...
Oriental Vase

Oriental Vase

White ceramic oriental vase with blue and white painted decoration, discarded with two others after the death of Mary Everett in 1908.
Oriental Vase

Oriental Vase

Imported oriental white ceramic flower vase, with transfer-printed design in blue, showing human figures and animals. This was one of at least three small imported oriental vases discarded, in 1908, after the death of Mary Everett, along with old and worn crockery....
Vase

Vase

Small majolica flower vase, from the School House, Bergh Apton.