{"product_id":"turned-green-marble-bud-vase-with-flared-collar-rim-veined-serpentine-stone-c-1970-2000","title":"Turned Green Marble Bud Vase with Flared Collar Rim, Veined Serpentine Stone, c. 1970–2000","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA small bud vase turned from a single piece of deep green stone. The profile is classical and quiet: a narrow foot swelling into a tapered shoulder, drawing back into a short neck, and finishing in a flared collar rim that rolls over and returns. It is a shape that has to be cut on a lathe from solid stock, and the whole vessel — body, neck, rim and bore — is one piece with no joins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe stone does the work. It runs a near-black forest green shot through with a network of pale grey-white veining that wanders diagonally across the body, and scattered through it are darker inclusions and small dark eyes that read almost like fossil shell. Polished to a high gloss, it goes glassy where the light hits and drops to near black in shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe bore is drilled straight and true down the neck. The base is finished with a green felt pad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIt has real weight for its size, which is the first thing anyone notices when they pick it up. Stone is not a material you expect at this scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe stone presents as one of the dark green ornamental marbles — a serpentine-veined stone of the sort quarried and worked in India and southern Europe and sold through the giftware trade as green marble. It has not been formally identified, and a species is not certified here from colour alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eTurned stone vessels of this kind belong to a long and continuous craft. Cutting a hollow vessel from solid stone on a lathe is one of the oldest forms of stoneworking there is, and the technique has never really stopped — the modern export trade in Agra and Rajasthan turns thousands of pieces a year to shapes that would be recognisable to a Roman workshop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis example carries \u003cstrong\u003eno maker's mark, country stamp, or import label\u003c\/strong\u003e. What it does carry is a small round retail price sticker on the felt base, which tells you it was sold across a counter and nothing more than that. The range given below rests on the felt-pad finishing, the machine-drilled bore, and the retail sticker, all of which are consistent with later twentieth-century giftware production rather than anything earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eWe would rather be plain about that than dress it up. This is not an antique. It is a well-made small object in a genuinely good piece of stone, and the stone is the reason to own it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003ctable border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"8\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:100%; border-collapse:collapse;\"\u003e\n    \u003cthead\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; vertical-align:top;\"\u003eField\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth align=\"left\" style=\"text-align:left; vertical-align:top;\"\u003eDetail\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/thead\u003e\n    \u003ctbody\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eObject\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eBud vase\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eDark green veined ornamental marble, presenting as a serpentine stone; polished. Not formally identified.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eForm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eLathe-turned from a single piece: tapered body on a narrow foot, short neck, flared and returned collar rim, straight drilled bore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eBase\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eGreen felt pad with a small round retail price sticker\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eMarks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eNone\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003ec. 1970–2000. Offered as a decorative stone vessel, not as an antique.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eVery good. Structurally sound with no chips, cracks, or losses to the body, neck, or rim, and it stands flat and true. The polish is bright and even across the body. The pale veining running through the stone is natural figure, not damage. There is light surface scuffing consistent with shelf handling, some mineral dulling around the inner edge of the rim and inside the neck, and the felt base pad is intact with a retail sticker in place. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n      \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"vertical-align:top;\"\u003eOne of a Kind — 1 Available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n    \u003c\/tbody\u003e\n  \u003c\/table\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA bud vase is the most useful vessel in a house because it takes one stem. Not an arrangement, not a bouquet you have to build — one branch of something out of the garden, a single rose, a sprig of eucalyptus, a bare twig in February. It makes a table look considered with about four seconds of effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eStone is the reason to choose this one over glass. The weight means it will not go over when someone reaches past it, and the dark green with pale veining reads as a material rather than as a container, so it holds a shelf perfectly well standing empty. Against brass, warm wood, cream, black and every other stone, it belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIt is also the right size for the spots a larger vase cannot go: a bathroom shelf, a desk, a windowsill, a nightstand, the corner of a mantel, or a bookshelf where it does duty as a small dark sculptural full stop between stacks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA note on care. Marble and serpentine are \u003cstrong\u003ecalcareous stones and they etch\u003c\/strong\u003e — anything acidic will dull the polish permanently and no amount of buffing brings it back. Keep vinegar, citrus, wine and every acidic or abrasive household cleaner away from it, including the bathroom and glass sprays most people reach for. Wipe it with a soft cloth and plain water, or a stone-safe pH-neutral cleaner, and dry it immediately. If you use it with water and flowers, empty and dry it between uses rather than letting water stand, and stand it on a coaster or felt on any wood surface, because the felt base will pass moisture through if the vase sweats. It is stone: it is hard, but it is also brittle, and the flared rim is where it will chip if it goes over.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48030732484713,"sku":"VE-0671","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/0093\/9369\/files\/808EC117-C12D-48FA-9258-71CA45B702C2_4f5ff15a-fb05-43b9-adeb-4c82d5238235.jpg?v=1789016849","url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/turned-green-marble-bud-vase-with-flared-collar-rim-veined-serpentine-stone-c-1970-2000","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}