Avase (/veɪs/ or/vɑːz/) is an open container. It can be made from a number of materials, such asceramics,glass, non-rustingmetals, such asaluminium,brass,bronze, orstainless steel. Evenwood has been used to make vases, either by using tree species that naturally resistrot, such asteak, or by applying a protective coating to conventional wood or plastic. Vases are oftendecorated, and they are often used to holdcut flowers. Vases come in different sizes to support whateverflower is being held or kept in place.
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.
Various styles and types of vases have been developed around the world in different time periods, such asChinese ceramics andNative American pottery. In thepottery of ancient Greece "vase-painting" is the traditional term covering the famous fine painted pottery, often with many figures in scenes fromGreek mythology. Such pieces may be referred to as vases regardless of their shape; most were in fact used for holding or serving liquids, and many would more naturally be called cups, jugs and so on. In 2003,Grayson Perry won theTurner Prize for his ceramics, typically in vase form.
There is a long history of the form and function of the vase in nearly all developed cultures, and often ceramic objects are the only artistic evidence left from vanished cultures. In the beginning stages ofpottery, thecoiling method of building was the most utilized technique to makepottery. The coiling method is the act of working the clay into long cylindrical strips that later become smooth walls.
Thepotter's wheel was probably invented inMesopotamia by the 4th millennium BCE, but spread across nearly all Eurasia and much of Africa, though it remained unknown in theNew World until the arrival ofEuropeans.[2] The earliest discovery of the origins of the potter's wheel was in southern Iraq. The discovery of this technique was beneficial to the people of south Iraq because it served as a substitute for their previous inefficient traditions. Upon this new technique, it would then grow gradually and even be adopted for the use of decorating pottery.[3]
Romancalyx krater with reliefs of maidens and dancing maenads; 1st century AD;Pentelic marble; height: 80.7 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mayacodex-style vase with a mythological scene; 7th–8th century; ceramic; height: 19 cm, diameter: 11.2 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two Chinese flasks with dragons; 1403-1424; underglaze blue porcelain; height (the left one): 47.8 cm, height (the right one): 44.6 cm;British Museum (London)
An example ofDelftware; circa 1690; tin-glazed earthenware; height: 72.4 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art
^"Museo Torlonia".Inv. 174. Luca Leoncini, "The Torlonia Vase: History and Visual Records from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 54 (1991:99–116).
^"Several 17th and 18th-century variants are illustrated in John Goldsmith Phillips"."The Choisy-Ménars Vases" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, 25.6 (February 1967:242–250).
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