Vases (on table, from left): Poole Pottery Maya Purse vase, £75; Maury clay vase, £20, and small Maury clay vase, £15.
Table, £179, marksandspencer.com, and vase, £12, anthropologie.com.
Cost of the vase: 849 kroner.
The vase, 10 inches in diameter, has layers of color just like the shellfish.
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Clockwise from top left: Coomba cushion, £122, Missoni, amara.com Mini Ombre table lamp, £28, next.co.uk Curious tuberose candle, £28, truegrace.co.uk Kashmir small amethyst vase, £30, dartington.co.uk Checked throw, £24.99, dunelm-mill.com Styled by Emma Akbareian Photograph by Sara Morris.
A yellow salad plate with open-work edges is $48 for a set of four at Anthropologie. 3. A vase 7 1/2 inches high, called Grassy Print, is $15 at Pier 1, (800 245-4595 or www.pier1.com.
The name of the group comes, the young men claim, and who, except a devotee of old television sit-coms would know, from a "Brady Bunch" episode in which Bobby broke a vase (516) 484-1516.
The small celadon vase, 4 inches, or 11.5 centimeters, high, was dated by Christie's to the 17th or 18th century, even though the shape, color and size rather point to the Southern Song period, around the early 13th century.
A van Gogh still life, "Flowers in a Vase" (1890), which had brought $4 million at Sotheby's sale of works from the Reader's Digest Collection in 1998, was back on the block with an ambitious estimate of $5 million to $7 million.
