While the goods are still cheap by American standards, still, with the high prices at the point of manufacture, it was easy to imagine that my mom would see a significant increase in the price for the same vase at a Target store.
For here is Ray in the new bed, in the new room — a room identical to the previous one, with the same bedside table and on this table the same vase of flowers from friends.
They could cheerfully allow that when one person sees a vase and another thinks about it, the type of understanding may be different but the object is the same in that the conceptual thought grasps a real universal vaseness that inheres in the same particular vase that is perceived.
Instead of decorating a room with flowers in different colors, use flowers in the same hue with a vase that matches other decor.
Ensure that it is in a topple-proof container such as a large vase in the same color as your Easter theme and place it directly in the center of the table.
Normally opposed characteristics like hard and soft also blend, for example in Hella Jongerius's amber-colored pushed washbasin, which is made in soft polyurethane and resembles a sculpture by Rachel Whiteread, as do two squat vases in the same material, also by Ms. Jongerius.
In fact, their extreme wealth is buoying the fine-art market: Andy Warhol's Coke Bottle sold for a record $35m in New York in November, the same month a Chinese vase sold in London for an unprecedented £48m to a Chinese businessman.
Most cameras treat all subjects the same: a vase is a rose is a cute puppy.
Three-inch vases ($24 each) come in the same colors; Found Objects, (888) 777-1825 or www.foundobjects.com.com
In the same auction season, Lu Hanzehn, a major tire manufacturer, paid $1.5 million for a double-gourd Qing dynasty vase that was valued at less than $200,000.
