Clear Glass Modern Flower Vase - Horn - handmade by Chive
Clear Glass Modern Flower Vase - Horn - handmade by Chive

Glass Vases

Horn Glass Modern Clear Flower Vase

$19.25
Hand Blown Glass
Dishwasher safe cleaning
30-day return policy

Build the Arrangement That Looks Harder Than It Was

Pick a vase to anchor the shelf, then add the rest until it reads as curated instead of collected.

The Horn is a horn vase that lies sideways in its own cradle, which is the entire point and also why people misjudge it. Eight inches long, tapering from an inch at the closed end to 4 inches at the open one, it carries a stem along its length instead of standing it upright. Top-heavy flowers stop being a problem: a peony, a hyacinth, a parrot tulip that would nod out of any upright vessel is supported for most of its stem, and since most of that stem sits under water it generally lasts about twice as long. A horn shaped vase gives you a diagonal where a table normally offers only verticals. As a trumpet glass vase in clear glass you can look straight down the taper and watch the stems disappear into the narrow end. Because it sits low and lengthways, it works under a shelf where an upright piece would be arguing with whatever hangs above it.

Product detail

Product Detail:

  • Material: Glass
  • Glaze finish: Translucent
  • Year Designed: 2003
Dimension
  • 8 inches long, displayed horizontally in a cradle, tapering from 1 inch to 4 inches across its length.
Vase Care Instructions

All glass vases in this collection are dishwasher safe for easy cleaning, with one exception: mercury glass vases should be hand-washed only. The silvered mercury finish is a delicate coating rather than a solid color, and dishwasher heat and detergent can dull or strip it over time.

For standard glass vases, just load it in with the rest of the dishes — no special care needed. For mercury glass pieces, wash gently with warm water and mild soap, and dry with a soft cloth rather than letting it air dry with water spots.

Rinse and dry after each use, especially if flower food or cut-stem residue was in the water, so nothing lingers and clouds the glass.
Flowers that Love this Vase
  • Calla Lily
  • Lavender
  • Snapdragon
  • Carnation
  • Coreopsis
  • Delphinium
  • Astilbe
  • Calendula
  • Clematis
  • Godetia

Quick Guide to Building a Floral Arrangement

  1. Pick your vase first
  2. Start with your anchor flower.
  3. Build in odd numbers.
  4. Add height, then fill.
  5. Greenery does the quiet work.
  6. Cut stems at an angle, underwater if you can.
  7. Step back before you decide it's done.
Shipping & returns

Shipping

  • Free shipping: Orders $200+ within the US
  • Standard: 5–8 business days, Express 2–3 business days (at checkout)
  • International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 7 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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Everyone Picks It Up and Stands It Upright — The Horn

People pick this up and stand it on its closed end. Not occasionally, either. Put it out on a shop table beside twenty other pieces and it is the one a customer will lift, examine, and then carefully balance upright like a rocket on a launch pad, at which point it wobbles, catches the light in a way that is admittedly quite good, and falls over. This happened for years. Todd used to correct people. He gave that up somewhere around the middle of the last decade and started watching instead, which is how the cradle got redrawn twice: once to make the resting angle obvious from three feet away, and once more to make the piece physically annoying to stand up. The current cradle wins that argument. What the whole episode taught us is that an object cannot explain itself in words on a label, because nobody is reading the label, and it therefore has to explain itself in its own shape or not at all. A shape that permits a mistake will collect that mistake forever, and no amount of packaging insert will undo it. The Horn no longer permits it, which took two redrawings and about eleven years of watching strangers get it wrong.

Chive Studio trimming tulip stems with scissors on a wooden surface, with white, purple, and pink tulips arranged nearby.
How to Cut Flowers Like a Pro:

A (Mostly) Simple Guide to Cutting Your Flowers

So, you’re making an arrangement? Let’s ensure it lives long enough to impress someone—even if it's just you.

  1. Scrub the Scissors: Wash your shears first. Your flowers do not want a side of Dorito dust.
  2. Cut at 45°: Snip stems at an angle. It gives them a straw instead of making them chug from the bottle.
  3. Trim Underwater (Fancy Mode): Cut them submerged to block air bubbles. It’s extra, but they didn’t ask to suffocate.
  4. Ditch Submerged Leaves: Strip anything below the waterline. Unless you are actively going for a swamp aesthetic.
  5. Snip Again if Stale: If they sat out on the counter, trim them again. They need a fresh start (don’t we all?).
  6. Swap the Water: Change it and trim the stems every few days so they don't die immediately.

Voilà! You are now a domestic deity. Go take your Instagram photo before you forget to water them.

Pro Tip: The light does half the work.

Glass catches and bends light in a way ceramic can't. Set the arrangement somewhere it'll get some late afternoon sun, even for an hour, and the water and stems start doing something a solid vase never will.

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A Colour Standing Still, For Once

The glass vases at Chive come out of the same studio habit that produced everything else here: design the object once, correctly, then resist every opportunity to complicate it. Each one holds stems. None of them hides anything.

Lying down is this one's whole proposition, and it has been that way since 2003 without an amendment. If what a room needs is a colour standing still rather than a line lying across a table, the Imperial Glass Boho Flower Vase holds the opposite position in matte amber.

Where Top-Heavy Blooms Behave

Every Chive vase is built around one decision about how flowers should stand, then finished by hand until that decision reads as obvious.

The decision behind this piece was to stop asking flowers to stand at all. Set on its side in a cradle and tilted slightly upward, the cone supports a stem end to end, with the greater part of that stem sitting under water, which is why top-heavy blooms behave here and nowhere else. Hyacinth stops nodding. A parrot tulip stops folding at the neck. Every other vessel in the glass range asks for a vertical instead.

Ivory European Water Lily ceramic wall flower mounted on a wall — Chive Ceramics Studio

The Same Geometry, Repeated In Ceramic

An Ivory Stargazer Lily is the closest thing we make to this vase in another material: a trumpet form, angled upward, opening from a narrow throat into a wide face. Hang one above the table where the Horn sits and the geometry repeats itself in ceramic. Neither piece needs the other. They flatter each other regardless.

Somebody Here Lives With It First

Since 2004 nothing here has shipped until somebody in the building has lived with it at home for a season. Not tested it, not photographed it: used it, on a real table, with whatever flowers were around and whoever else lives there having opinions about it. That is where the genuinely useful complaints come from, and several designs have died at exactly that stage after surviving every earlier one. It is also why the catalogue moves slowly. Everything in it is drawn, sampled and finished start to finish in this building, and then someone volunteers a kitchen for three months before it goes anywhere near a shelf. Nobody has ever refused. A few have negotiated.

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Frequently asked questions

What is a horn vase and what sets the Horn apart?

A horn vase is a tapered cone, open and wide at one end and closed at the other. Most of them stand up. This one lies down in a cradle, tipped slightly skyward, so a stem travels along the cone instead of dropping to the base of it. It measures an inch across at the tip and four at the mouth. Lying down is the difference.

Can the Horn vase hold dried stems as well as fresh?

Better than fresh in some respects, and this is the one item here I would say that about. Dried material needs no water, and with the water gone the cone becomes a pure support holding a long line at a shallow angle. Lavender, astilbe, a dried delphinium spike: they lie along it and stay put. Fresh flowers get the submersion advantage instead. Dried get the geometry.

How much water does the Horn vase hold when filled?

Less than the length implies, and that is worth saying plainly. Because it rests on its side, the level can only rise as far as the lowest point of the mouth before it spills, which is well under half of the internal volume. Call it a large cup. That is still enough to keep a submerged stem going for several days at a time. The eight inches are for the stem, not the water.

Why was glass chosen for the Horn vase's construction?

Because you look along it rather than into it. A ceramic cone of these proportions would be a closed pipe with a flower emerging from one end, and the interesting half of the object would sit out of sight. In clear stock the stem stays visible for its full run, bending slightly where the cone narrows. The support is the thing worth seeing. Ceramic would have concealed it.

Can you remove hard water marks from the Horn vase easily?

Easier than on anything upright, for two reasons. The deposit forms as a long shallow stripe along the underside rather than as a ring, so nothing is trapped inside a narrow neck. And the mouth is four inches wide, so a hand and a cloth both fit inside without a tool. Lift it out of the cradle before you start, because working on it in place is awkward. Two minutes, standing at the sink.

Where does the Horn vase look best in a modern room?

Low, and underneath something. A coffee table, a bench, the shelf below a run of wall cabinets: anywhere a standing vessel would be competing for attention with whatever hangs overhead. It reads as a horizontal line in a room otherwise built out of vertical ones, which is why it sits well next to a stack of books. Give it something to lie along.

Should you choose the Horn vase or the Imperial vase first?

Depends whether you are buying a shape or a colour. The Imperial is the colour decision: matte amber, upright, legible across a room and working perfectly well with nothing in it at all. This is the shape decision, and it needs a flower before it makes any argument. If a shelf is bare, take the Imperial. If a table is bare, take this.

When did the Chive studio team design the Horn vase?

In 2003, which makes it one of the earliest shapes still in the range. It has been made continuously ever since, without an alteration to either the cradle or the cone, and the only thing that has changed is the number of people in this studio who have argued that it looks like it toppled. It has never toppled in anybody's house. It was drawn that way.
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