In the main temple (fo-khang) of Lhasa there is a pre-Buddhist silver jug with a long neck surmounted by a horse's head; and there are textual references to all kinds of articles made of gold: a large golden goose holding seven gallons of wine, a wine vase, a miniature city decorated with gold lions, and golden bowls.
The line, which includes a wine coaster, four vases and a bowl, ranges in price from $295 to $1,525 (the 6 1/2-inch Flared vase, left, is $500, and the 8-inch Trumpet vase, right, is $450).
In the Song period, vases, wine jars, and pillows (which are more comfortable than they appear) were the most usual products.
At one time Jensen made 33 flatware patterns, 23 of which are no longer produced, and about 1,200 holloware items: bowls, candelabra, pitchers, tea sets, trays, vases, wine coolers, covered fish platters and more.
Extras can include tea towels, baking trays, a can opener and other utensils, an electric mixer, wine glasses and vases, blenders or juicers, etc. Shop for your dining room.
Talavera pottery is fragile tin-enameled earthenware, but she grabbed everything — a plate, a vase, a wine decanter — squeezing, turning and firmly handling each one, like a builder rapping on a wall to confirm it is solid.
We pass the flames in the hearth, a candelabra, a decanter and a wine glass, and a vase of flowers, before coming to rest once more on young Emily, her features now furrowed by some unspoken dismay.
The Virtual Diner is a wire server outfitted with a place setting: silverware, a dinner plate, wine glass, water glass, vase, votive holder, salt and pepper shakers and a rack for remote controls; $110 at Jensen Lewis, 89 Seventh Avenue (16th Street).
Flushed with victory, I also bought eight extra wine glasses and three vases.
The brain, intestines, and other vital organs were removed, washed in palm wine, and placed in vases, known as canopic jars, filled with herbs.
The look is spartan-luxe, as if designed for a big man by another big man, which makes the pops of delicacy – the long stems on the wine glasses, the narrow vases of wild herbs – striking.
