Each piece was a one-of-a-kind, was decorated with fine wheel cutting, and came in many different vase shapes.
Besides, no other tree has the elegant vase shape for which the stately elm is famous.
The task of naming Greek vase shapes is by no means a straightforward one.
Soon, one finds vase shapes in the spaces between the elements.
That vase shape was much rarer during the time of the group's activity than in earlier times.
The other four are all more upright in habit, though without the vase shape of a kousa.
The tree has a round growth pattern, as opposed to the vase shape of the American species.
He also painted a lydion, a vase shape very rarely produced by Attic potters.
He painted a wide variety of vase shapes, including even kylikes, a rarity among his contemporaries.
But he also stakes it, he admitted, to emphasize its "beautiful vase shape."