Imperial Ivy Bottle Vase

A bottle vase, 10.5 inches across and fifteen tall, in slip-cast porcelain with an ivy pattern in green and white. The narrow neck is the practical advantage of the bottle form: it holds a few stems upright on its own, without a frog or a mass of foliage to prop them against each other. Fifteen inches is tall enough to hold a console without dominating it. Handcrafted, so each piece varies slightly in size and colour. From the Imperial collection.