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Old 11-18-2009, 02:46 AM   #1
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Nov 18, 2009: Vase

What a beautiful vase, all gold and shiny looking. Precious metals?



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Moulded from the bladder of a camel. From Moultan, Pakistan, mid – 19th cent.
Ewww, yucky.

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Old 11-18-2009, 03:27 AM   #2
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To think, I never knew how beautiful camel bladder really is before now.
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Old 11-18-2009, 04:01 AM   #3
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I always thought they were pink and wrinkly and stinky and full of piss.
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:03 AM   #4
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Hey, bladders are great things for holding ... um, liquids.
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:16 AM   #5
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Would this be classified as Mixed Media Art?
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Old 11-18-2009, 08:28 AM   #6
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The colors on the bladder vase are so organ-ized.
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Old 11-18-2009, 09:35 AM   #7
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I'll have to remember that the next time I'm digging around a pile of animal guts. "Oh...look at this stomach. That would make a kick-ass tapestry!"
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:08 AM   #8
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it says moulded from (or, in 'merkin, "molded); it doesn't say the vase is made from camel bladder. Just like papier mache-ing a balloon in kindergarten.
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:12 AM   #9
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Don't think so, that's not the natural shape of a bladder, plus the site it's on.
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:21 AM   #10
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Boy, I bet that camel was pissed.

Oh wait. That was a bladder. Maybe not.
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:26 AM   #11
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I guess my back would be humped also if i had a bladder like that.
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:27 AM   #12
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you might be right, but why use the word molded in that case? the site says it's a collection of rawhide and leather; perhaps leather molded around the blown up bladder?
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:32 AM   #13
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If you blow up a bladder, I doubt it would take that shape. Probably look more like the balloon that was paper mached... mache-ed... mashed... covered.
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:36 AM   #14
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vintage camel bladder vessel
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Old 11-18-2009, 11:37 AM   #15
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Vintage? As opposed to all the nouveau camel bladder knockoffs they try to sell you at the mall?
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