Jargogle Ceramic Unique Flower Vase

Regular price $21.50
Colors: Green
Sizes
Fully Glazed
Dishwasher safe cleaning
30-day return policy

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The Jargogle vase is an asymmetric flower vase in glazed ceramic, named during a 2020 lockdown when somebody pulled eight letters out of a Scrabble bag and declared the result final. Nobody vetoed it. I suspect nobody wanted to be the person who said no to Jargogle, so the name stood, the way any word becomes real if you keep saying it with a straight face. The form leans the way the name sounds: a wonky ceramic vase that tilts on purpose, so garden stems cut at uneven lengths look arranged rather than dumped. It comes in two sizes and two colors, green and white, and the fully glazed interior keeps water exactly where water belongs. Cut whatever the yard happens to offer this week, drop the stems in, and let the tilt do the styling work. Artisans shape these pieces by hand between more sensible projects, which may explain everything.

Product detail
  • Vase Type:
  • Material: Ceramic
  • Glaze finish: Glazed
  • Water Resistance: Watertight
  • Year Designed: 2020
Dimension
  • Large: 3.3 inches diameter, 6.3 inches tall
  • Medium: 3.3 inches diameter, 4.3 inches tall
Vase Care Instructions

Every ceramic vase in this collection is dishwasher safe on the top rack, making cleanup between arrangements as simple as loading it in with the rest of the dishes. The glazed surface holds up fine to regular washing, so there's no need to hand-wash unless you'd prefer to.

If you're cleaning a piece with painted or sculpted detail, a gentler cycle or a quick hand-wash with warm water and mild soap will help keep the finish looking sharp for longer. Either way, rinse and dry after each use — especially if flower food or cut-stem residue was in the water — so nothing lingers and clouds the glaze.

No special sealants, no periodic maintenance. Wash it, dry it, put flowers back in it.

Flowers that Love this Vase
  • Cornflower
  • Daisy
  • Dahlia
  • Iris
  • Columbine
  • Sweet William
  • Chamomile
  • Anthurium
  • Forsythia
  • Magnolia

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

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  • 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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The Bag Knew — Naming the Jargogle

Weeks after the name stuck, someone finally typed Jargogle into a search bar, expecting nothing, and discovered it is a real word — a seventeenth-century verb meaning to confuse, to jumble, to mix things up. The bag, evidently, knew. Eight tiles pulled at random during a lockdown had assembled an actual English word whose definition happens to describe exactly what this vase does to a handful of stems. Nobody in the building has fully recovered from the discovery. There were theories: the bag was haunted; the bag was showing off; someone had salted the bag and refused to confess. The leading explanation remains dumb luck, which is somehow the least satisfying answer and the most likely one. What matters is that the vase honors its definition. Stems go in at odd angles and come out looking curated, because the lean of the body does the jumbling for you and then calls it composition. People who cannot arrange flowers — a group that includes most of the people who made this vase — get results that strongly suggest a class was taken. No class was taken. A word from the sixteen-hundreds is doing the work, quietly, in glazed ceramic, and asking for no credit whatsoever.

Chive Studio trimming tulip stems with scissors on a wooden surface, with white, purple, and pink tulips arranged nearby.

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: Keep It Short and Sweet!

When it comes to flower stems, shorter is better. Not only do shorter stems look chic in arrangements, but they also help your blooms last longer. Why? Because the shorter the stem, the less distance water has to travel to keep those petals perky. It’s like giving your flowers a shorter commute—less stress, fewer breakdowns.

Perfect Pairs for Any Shelf

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Jojo Ceramic Bud Vase

The ceramic 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 holds back. If the Jargogle's lean feels like too much personality before coffee, the round little Jojo Ceramic Bud Vase sits perfectly still and waits for one stem.

The Ceramic Vases Collection

Every Chive vase is built around one decision about how flowers should stand, then finished by hand until that decision reads as obvious. The Jargogle's decision was lean: let the vase supply the angle so the stems don't have to. Around it in the lineup sit vases that chose height, or width, or symmetry instead, each conviction fired into permanent form. Browsing them together is the fastest way to learn your own taste. Shop the Ceramic Vases collection.

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Every chaotic object needs a calm neighbor. The Chamomile Shido Candle is that neighbor — coconut-soy wax, a scent that unclenches a room — and it sits beside the Jargogle's lean like a therapist beside an interesting client. Light it while you arrange. The stems will land wherever they land, and you will mind far less.


Chive Studio at Chelsea Flower Show displaying ceramic pooley vases of different colors.

Serious Shapes, Silly Names — Chive Since 2004

Since 2004 this studio has operated on a simple bargain: we take the shapes seriously so the names don't have to be. The Jargogle is the bargain at full stretch — a name from a tile bag, a form refined through more prototypes than we admit publicly. Ridiculousness on the label buys rigor at the bench. Each vase is glazed inside completely, checked for lean that is intentional rather than accidental (there is a difference, and we can see it), and fired to the density a daily-use object requires. Two decades in, the split still holds: the words get to be play, the clay never does. Customers seem to sense the arrangement. They come for the name and stay for what sits underneath it.


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Frequently asked questions

What should you look for when buying a jargogle vase online?

Confirm the lean is designed rather than accidental — a product photo from straight on should show the tilt repeating identically across every piece, not varying the way a defect would. Check for a fully glazed interior, since raw clay inside weeps moisture onto furniture. Ours clears both bars and publishes its two size options plainly. Asymmetry should be a decision. Here it is.

What flowers work best in the Jargogle vase from Chive?

Mixed garden pulls are the sweet spot: cornflowers, daisies, chamomile — stems of scattered lengths that would sulk in a symmetric vase. The built-in lean staggers them automatically, so the bunch reads relaxed instead of ragged. Single dramatic stems work too; an iris against the tilt looks like it chose the angle. Formal dozens are the one mismatch. Casual wins here.

What are the Jargogle vase's dimensions for shelf or table display?

The listing carries the current measurements for both sizes, and we defer to it rather than quote numbers here that a production tweak could someday outdate. As orientation: the medium suits shelves and sills, while the large earns table and console duty. Both keep the same lean, so scale changes without the character doing so. Check the specs panel before ordering. It stays current.

Does ceramic keep flower water fresher in the Jargogle vase?

Ceramic does help. Thick walls buffer the water against room-temperature swings and block light entirely — two of the three things that accelerate the slime that shortens a bouquet's run. The glazed interior adds the third defense: a nonporous surface that bacteria find inhospitable and a rinse actually clears. Glass can't block the light. Clay wins that one.

How often should you change the water in the Jargogle vase?

Every two to three days keeps stems at their best, and the wide-enough mouth makes the swap a ten-second job — tip, rinse, refill, done. Trim a sliver off each stem while you're at it and the arrangement resets its clock. The glazed interior rinses clean without scrubbing. Fresh water is the cheapest flower food there is. Use it often.

Can the Jargogle vase anchor a dining table or entryway console?

The larger size anchors comfortably. On a dining table its lean gives the centerpiece some motion, which beats the static lump most tables settle for, and the ceramic has the weight to ignore bumped chairs. On an entry console it works as the greeter — one tilted object saying the household has a sense of humor. Go large for anchoring duty. The medium prefers shelves.

Which holds more stems, the Jargogle vase or the Jojo vase?

The Jargogle, decisively. It was drawn for handfuls — a whole garden pull can go in at once and the lean sorts out the composition. The Jojo is a bud vase with a bud vase's appetite: one stem, maybe two if they're slight. They solve different problems at different scales. Bouquets go here, solo stems go to the Jojo. Volume favors this one.

Who designed the Jargogle vase and what inspired its shape?

The studio team designed it in 2020, during a lockdown that had everyone naming things strangely and shaping things stranger. The tilt came from watching how stems actually fall when nobody arranges them — the vase just formalizes the slouch. The name came from a tile bag and turned out, on later inspection, to be a real seventeenth-century verb for jumbling — accidental precision, fully embraced. We kept everything.

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