Amelie Pale Green Vase

The Amelie — a soft sage green vase in lightly distressed glazed ceramic, banded with three rows of beaded bobble detail across the shoulder — a quietly romantic vase that borrows its trim from antique French passementerie.

The Amelie brings a vase silhouette and palette that most ceramics overshoot — a soft, dusty pale sage green that reads almost limewashed, finished with a chalky matte glaze that gives the surface tactile depth. The form is a generous classical storage jar: rounded shoulder narrowing to a small neat mouth, tapering gently toward the base. The colour sits in the rare middle ground between English duck egg blue and French country sage — quietly grown-up, never bright — and the lightly distressed finish gives the impression of a piece that has lived in its place for a long time rather than arrived from a factory yesterday.

What sets it apart

The detail that makes it different

The detail that lifts the Amelie out of the generic pale-vase category is the beading — three horizontal bands of small raised bobble detail running around the upper third of the body, finished in a paler cream that softly contrasts with the sage. The reference is borrowed from textile rather than ceramic: antique French passementerie trim, the bobbin-edged borders that ran along Empire-era curtains and upholstery. Translated into glazed ceramic, the bobbles add a quiet rhythmic interest that catches side-light and adds a hint of romance to an otherwise pared-back form. At 31cm tall and 22cm wide, the Amelie sits comfortably on a sideboard, console or coffee table — sized to anchor a vignette rather than disappear into one.