Nov 18, 2009: Vase

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

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

Ewww, yucky. :dead:

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To think, I never knew how beautiful camel bladder really is before now.

I always thought they were pink and wrinkly and stinky and full of piss.

Hey, bladders are great things for holding ... um, liquids.

Would this be classified as Mixed Media Art?

The colors on the bladder vase are so organ-ized.

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!"

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.

Don't think so, that's not the natural shape of a bladder, plus the site it's on.

Boy, I bet that camel was pissed.

Oh wait. That was a bladder. Maybe not.

I guess my back would be humped also if i had a bladder like that.

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?

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. ;)

Vintage? As opposed to all the nouveau camel bladder knockoffs they try to sell you at the mall?

Yeah, that's what it would look like if it hadn't been molded and gussied up.

maybe it just has mold growing on it

Work your fingers to the bone whaddya get?
Moldy bladders
Moldy bladders

Shawnee123;609576 wrote:

Work your fingers to the bone whaddya get?
Moldy bladders
Moldy bladders

Moldy Bladders sounds like a punk band.

They should have molded it from the camel's sperm ducts. Then it could be a "vase deferens".

Yeah, how do we know this isn't a Korean faux camel bladder vase knockoff?

How has this been authenticated?

PS: You guys are so fucking funny. LMAO!

"moulded from" something can be synonymous with "made from".If you were using the camel bladder as the mold, you would be more llikely to say molded on the bladder.

JMO, as someone who regularly molds dishes from clay on plaster molds.

Sheldonrs;609553 wrote:

I guess my back would be humped also if i had a bladder like that.

I suspect your back is frequently humped.

Yes I definitely see the two faces...and the vase. :)

So one day, some guy was cutting open a camel carcass, sees the bladder, and says to himself "I'll bet if I decorated and stiffened this here bladder, it would make a kick ass vase to put cactus flowers into."

At first I said to my self, You're insane! Then I thought, wow, there must have been a long stream of compliments on that vase. Now, I just think, what a pisser!

Count the puns.