Hello everyone~what is this vase thing?

Think this is a vase...has someone put a hole in it to make an electric light? I don't think the hole is factory. Oh just looked again, it MAY be factory ... is it 50s ? x x
It's sloppy as all hell, the glaze is running inside and it's just so rough. I like it though.
It's approx 6 and a half inches down and the hole bit is approx 8 inches
Thank you all x x

 

Are you saying it's 6 1/2" tall?? Not understanding what you meant about the hole being 8"......I love the blue & white anyway! Looks like a small planter.......to me!!

 

small planter...i concur..

 

(across the hole where you put things into it it's six and a half inches across ) x
Yes it's six anda half inches in length. Thanks both...do you think the hole was put in later? x x

 

Hello, Cousin! Agree, planter or cache pot. It would be hard to put the hole in after piece complete, so I favor the notion it is original, just sloppily done. Is the inner rim of the hole glazed?

 

Hey Cuz!

It's glazed at the top inside ,in fact it's glazed almost half way down the whole inside and then it just sort of dribbles xx

 

Was wondering if the inside edge of the hole in the bottom has any glaze on it? Howyaben?

 

The reason Bronwen is asking about the inside of the drain hole in the bottom being glazed is because, in general, when a hole is put in a piece at the factory, it is done before it is fired. Consequently, glaze often drips through the hole, and it has a relatively smooth finish to the edges. If it is drilled in after it is fired, the inside of the hole looks sanded and there is no glaze at all.

The overall shape says planter to me. IMHO, the hole was most likely done at the factory.

 

It was always meant to hold a plant, but someone might have taken a masonry bit to it afterward because with no hole it was drowning plants. I'd throw a plant in a plastic pot into the pretty one, but with no drainage that could be trouble. Hence the hole.

 

(PLANTER that was the word I wanted,not vase,thanks x x)
Oh sorry I misunderstood,the hole isn't glazed, the rim of the top is but when it gets to the bottom it's run out !
From the underside,it looks like someone could have drilled it but when I look inside,there's a lump of china stuff or whatever it's made of

Sorry I totally misunderstood !!! No the hole has no glaze xx

I have been OK,lost my Mum but she had been ill for a while. She wasn't old though and she was not ready to go.But life goes on...how have you been? xxx

 

Thanks everyone <3
PLANTER, try to remember to use that, I knew wasn't vase,could not think of the name !

 

Sincerest sympathy Boudicca,

 

Thank you Judy. She was 70 ( which isn't old anyway) but she looked 40 and acted it. She was so not ready to go but when nature say's it's time, it's time <3 xx

 

Just for jolly, here is a pic of me and my Mum year before last. My eyes were puffy because my son was going to Uni in Ireland which is literally hundreds of miles fron his ole Mum and I COULD NOT stop cwying, and I was also H U G E then, bit smaller now

 

Sending only sympathy and comforting thoughts your way....!!!!

 

Oh, Boudicca, what a lovely photo. I know that you're glad to have such a wonderful picture of the two of you together!

My sympathies on her passing. It's never easy...

Wishing you the best,
-C-

 

I've been fine. Worst thing in my life is this bait & switch spring.

Mum, with her blue nail polish & tattoos, was clearly very much in the present, not someone who had stepped out of the stream of life. And the two of you look so much alike.

My mother was 2 weeks short of 69 when she died, looked much younger. She had an eyelid lift the year before so she could look great for her 50th high school reunion, even though she knew she was terminally ill.

After each of my parents died, found there were so many practical & business matters to deal with there was no time to really grieve until months later. Sending thoughts of sympathy & support your way. Where is son in uni?

Cousin Bronwen

 

Thank you so much x x x

 

Weird without her here, but I s'pose we get used to it? x x x

 

I have never thought my Mum and I were alike, but now I realsie we must have been. She didn't get tattoos til she was 50,I had them a long time before she did!
My Gran was 69 when she died,like your Mum Cuz, but my Gran LOOKED like a Gran, both my Gran's did.

My Mum was very not an old lady. Not ready, she fought to the very end. She was angry. Her husband retired on the very day she left...he took early retirement to be with her as she was ill.
Son was in Northern Ireland at Uni but he's back now, he only did a year due to weird circumstances and I'd like him to finish uni a bit closer to me!

But life goes on...my babies need me to look after them so I shall. I have come to terms with it I think, I knew she was going to die so it wasn't a shock but at same time, it was.

Sorry to hear you have lost both your parents, Cuz. I still have my Dad, he's never been a Dad to me but I love him and I am so lucky x x

OH GOD THIS SPRING...wish it'd just happen! I need sunshine!

Thanks to everyone for their lovely thoughts and words <3 xx