Sentence examples for useful vase from inspiring English sources
Austen, at a lecture by Herbert Gladstone in 1892 commented that "we only know of antimony at the present day as a highly brittle and crystalline metal, which could hardly be fashioned into a useful vase, and therefore this remarkable 'find' (artifact mentioned above) must represent the lost art of rendering antimony malleable".
I now use bud vases for flowers vs. vases.
Until recent months those USB ports were useful only as bud vases.
The twentieth-century architectural historian Sir John Summerson echoed these early criticisms when he compared the arrangement of a dome and two diminutive turrets on the roofline to "the clock and vases on a mantelpiece, only less useful".
"I decided I should knock myself off before somebody else did," said Ms. Palmer, whose Pearl Collection platters, vases, bowls and plates are at once ethereal, useful and decorative.
For his ornamental vases, Wedgwood built a factory called Etruria, to which the manufacture of useful wares was also transferred about 1771 73 (there his descendants carried on the business until 1940, when the factory was relocated at Barlaston, Staffordshire).
The 70 mostly useful objects, from the collection at Yale, include bronze ritual wine vessels and incense burners, porcelain water pots and vases, wooden brush holders, lacquer boxes, ceramics and calligraphy.
Both are titled "Vase Upon Vase".
