This table, these chairs, this metal vase with its three red flowers are about to undergo an extraordinary transformation.

Boxes for the cut rose collections were required to be standardized, with metal vases embedded in moss - no potatoes or straw or beer bottles.

He drew his heavy dagger to weight one side and picked up a metal vase studded with rubies and emeralds to hold the other side.

"Then she picked up a large old metal vase and she said, 'See, this is bronze,' " he said.

The work on metal vases took on a new fullness: the artists competed among themselves with great virtuosity.

It is usually accompanied by a metal vase, played with the other hand, to produce the treble sounds.

Polished metal vases on the deep window-ledge held arrangements of bright orange berries and evergreen boughs, altogether a different room under Vergerin's management.

The Aluminum Pottery Company's metal vases (2) are, left, $49.95, and right, $74.95.

In front of a Chinese tapestry stood a taboret that supported a metal vase of Hindu origin, a water lota.

She was holding up a very heavy metal vase.