vase - A
usually round vessel which is deeper
than it is wide. It can be decorative,
functional, or both.
Examples:
Greek, Attic, attributed to Oltos, Psykter, c. 520-510 BCE,
Archaic, red-figure, terra cotta, height
11 7/8 inches (30.20 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. A psyker is a Greek vase for
cooling wine when it is partly submerged inside of a krater
filled with icey water.
Among the types of Greek vases are the amphora, panathenaic amphora, hydria, pelike, volute and calyx kraters, lekythos, and kylix. Also see kantharos.
Greece, Apulia, South Italy, attributed
to the Painter of Louvre MNB 1148, about 330 BCE,
Red-Figure Loutrophoros (Type I) with Ovoid Body,
terra cotta, height
35 1/2 inches, diameter (rim) 10 1/2 inches (h. 90.1 cm, d. 26.0
cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA.
Japan, "Sue Potter," Kofun
Period, 7th century, Tall-necked vase, excavated
from Kaniana Tumulus, Toba-shi, Mie, glazed
pottery, height
55.7, mouth diameter 24.0
cm, Tokyo National Museum. Japanese authorities consider this
to be an "Important Cultural Property." See Japanese art.
Dutch, Delft Vase, 1700-1725, ceramic, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
See cobalt.
Nicholas Lecroux (Belgium, Tournay, 1733-99), Pair of Potpourri Vases, c. 1760, porcelain, height 9 inches (22.9 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
France, Sèvres, Royal Porcelain Factory,
about 1769, Pair of Lidded Vases, painted reserves
attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Etienne Genest, porcelain painter,
soft-paste porcelain,
blue Fallot ground, gilding, gilt-bronze mounts, 3 feet 6 1/4
x 3 feet 3 3/4 x 1 foot 2 inches (107.3 x 101 x 35.5 cm), J.
Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA. See French
art.
John Bennett (American, 1840-1907, New York,
NY), Vase, 1882, earthenware, 11 inches x 11 inches (27.9 x
27.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Attributed to George Prentiss Kendrick (United States, 1850-1919), Handled Vase, 1898-1902, stoneware, glaze, height 11 inches (27.94 cm), diameter 9 1/4 inches (23.5 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art. See Art Nouveau.
George Edgar Ohr (American, 1857-1918), Vase, c. 1888-1894, earthenware, height 7 1/4 inches (18.42 cm), diameter 4 7/8 inches (12.38 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) designer, James A. Miller and Brother, fabricators, Weed Vase, designed c. 1893, fabricated c. 1898, copper, 29 1/2 x 4 1/8 x 4 1/8 inches (74.93 x 10.48 x 10.48 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
University City Pottery (United States, 1909-1915), Frederick Hurten Rhead (American, born England, 1880-1942), Vase, 1911, earthenware, 17 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (43.82 x 13.02 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Dante Marioni (American, Seattle, 1964-),
Yellow Leaf Vase, 1994, glass,
32 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, diameter
[foot] 6 inches (80.6 x 18.8 x 5.6 cm, diameter
[foot] 15 cm), Cincinnati Art Museum, OH.
Vases were of great importance in ancient Greece, made in numerous conventional shapes, each designed for a specific function, these designs standardized in to varying degrees, many variations depending on the period and region in which it was produced. The names of vase shapes include: alabastron, amphora, askos, cantharus, hydria, kiathos, krater, kylix, lagynos, lekythos [or lecythus], loutrophoros, oinochoe, olpe, pithos, psyker, pyxis, rhyton, skyphos, and stamnos.
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