DISCOUNT GLASS VASES

We offer only a few sizes of cone glass vases at for the time being; we will expand our cone's section with more sizes very soon and will present discount glass vases.

Vases have been made since ancient times in all types of material, including ceramic, metal, and glass. Most vases are upright containers meant for flowers. More than any other form, glass vase come in a tremendous variety of shapes, color, and size, ranging from a few inches to several feet tall.

Early 19th-century vases are usually free-blown or blown and cut. They were probably always expensive, since these objects were basically decorative rather than functional. Unlike pitchers, vases were seldom made in bottle glass, but were usually produced by glasshouses specializing in tableware. In this early period, the upright celery vase meant for the table was often also used for show. By mid-century, the number of shapes and types had greatly increased, so that neither criterion can be used to date example. Middle 19th- century pressed-glass vases usually display simple patterns and striking colors. Although these patterns match lamp fonts, they seldom match set of pressed-glass tableware. These early colored pressed vases, like their free-blown counterparts, may have been intended for celery; in pressed glass catalogues of the 1860s and 1870s, the only vases shown are listed as "celery stand".

In the late 19th century, manufactures of brilliant-cut glass and art glass introduced the corset-shaped vase with a distinct waist. But cut vases also came in baluster, pear, and trumpet shapes as well as irregular forms. The trumpet shape is probably the most common, adopted in glass of nearly every type, including Depression glass of the 1930s. Near the turn of the century, elongated vases known as "swing vases" became fashionable in both carnival glass and opalescent pressed glass. The name comes from the unusual method of manufacture. The cylindrical shape was pressed in a pattern mold; then a workman "swung" the vase on the end of a tool, thus using the vase own weight to elongate it. Finally, the top of the vase was ruffled for the characteristic rim.

As a discount glass vases company we try to supply not only the best quality vases for florist, but also offer some information about glass.