Q: We enjoy your weekly column and appreciate your candid appraisals. Attached are photos of "both sides" and the top of a glass vase that has been in the family since the late 1890s. From the gilt ...

Do you have elegant vases that you love but never use for real flowers? I know I have some I consider using but always end up rejecting. What characteristics make vases solely ornamentals and not for ...

Some of you will remember a parent getting a flower gift in a small peculiar vase with the face of a glamorous woman, perhaps wearing a fancy hat. Others may remember an aunt or other relative having ...

Many of us have a generic hodgepodge of glass vases (you know the ones) leftover from bouquets of birthdays past. They're tall, straight cylinders that require advance floral-arranging skills to ...

Different types of flowers require different vessels for displaying them at their very best, which means... you can never have enough vases. You need tiny bud vases to hold single blooms, perhaps ...

When a visitor to a Cambridge museum tripped over his shoelaces he smashed a set of 17th Century Chinese porcelain vases into pieces. Conservators have now pledged to glue them back together, but how?