Sentence examples for clay vase from inspiring English sources

Vases (on table, from left): Poole Pottery Maya Purse vase, £75; Maury clay vase, £20, and small Maury clay vase, £15.

In eight separate scenes, as Mr. Marsalis and his band play, dancers interact onstage with Mr. Puryear's outsize organic forms: an enormous clay vase, suspended upside down from the ceiling, that embodies fertility; a giant curling spatula, part frond, part hoe, that suggests planting and new growth; a staircase that implies death.

One of them was an extremely valuable clay vase that her Grandmother had made 40 years earlier—a family heirloom.

One of them was an extremely valuable clay vase that her grandmother had made 40 years earlier—a family heirloom.

For instance, inside an old, dusty clay vase on the book shelf.

The Shaft Graves had so many metal vases, including huge bronze cauldrons (one marked with Linear signs), that clay vases were not much needed.

By noon bulldozers were smashing the walls of several studios, revealing ripped-apart canvases and half-glazed clay vases lying in the rubble.

Pictures of boats with many oars or paddles were drawn among spirals (waves?) on clay vases of this period in the Cyclades and on the mainland.

Some say the government ginned up the trouble by sending an informant to pay cash for objects like ancient clay vases, burial effigies and sandals.

Disappearing behind the wall, they re-enter moments later holding soft clay vases, which they plop on their heads and manipulate into piglike masks.

Signs scratched or painted on clay vases, not only in Crete but on the mainland and in the islands, from about the middle of the 3rd millennium onward may reflect acquaintance with writing among the peoples of the Aegean area.