Matte White Porcelain Modern Flower Vase - Bird - handmade by Chive Studio Toronto
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Matte White Porcelain Modern Flower Vase - Bird - handmade by Chive Studio Toronto
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Bird Porcelain Modern Flower Vase

$22.95
Colors: Baby Blue
Sizes
Fully Glazed
Dishwasher safe cleaning
30-day return policy

Pickup available at A.N. Deringer c/o Chive Inc

Usually ready in 24 hours

Build Your Effortless Arrangements With These:

Choose a vase as your anchor, then round out the shelf with these for that thrown-together-but-somehow-perfect look.

The Bird porcelain vase is a porcelain vase built around a small ceramic bird that appears mid-stride along the shoulder, so a stem placed inside gains a companion whether it wanted one or not. As a bird vase it lives in the awkward middle ground between figurative object and functional vessel, and as a bird shaped vase it belongs to the small category of things that solve a problem you never technically had. Someone in the design's life had a sister who loved birds since she was nine, with the total unexamined devotion some people reserve for religion, and eventually you stop fighting the people who love you and start letting them win in small ceramic ways. This piece went into production in 2004 and has stayed there. The porcelain gets its finish by hand at Chive Ceramics Studio, where the little bird catches a shadow that shifts depending on which window is doing the lighting.

Product detail
  • Vase Type: 
  • Material: Porcelain
  • Glaze finish: Glazed
  • Water Resistance: Watertight
  • Year Designed: 2004
Dimension
  • 3.5 inches diameter, 8.75 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

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.
Canada wide shipping & returns

Shipping 

  • Standard: 5–8 business days, Express 2–3 business days (at checkout)
  • Canada Wide Shipping: from coast to coast — 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 hard good 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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Local pickup & delivery

Delivery: 

  • Delivered by hand across Toronto and the GTA. 
  • Next business day; same-day when you call the shop.
  • Local GTA delivery starts at $14
  • Call for a quote outside of the GTA

Pickup: Order online by 3pm and collect it the same day at:

702 Queen St. W.,
Toronto, ON M6J 1E7
437-777-5021

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What people are saying

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A sister, a bird, one small ceramic surrender

One of the studio's designers has a sister who fell for birds at age nine and never fell back out, with the sort of complete uncritical loyalty other people save for a sports team, and for years she assumed by extension that her brother felt the same way about birds, the way relatives inherit each other's taste in kitchen cabinetry. He is not a bird person. He owns this vase anyway, because at a certain point one stops resisting the family members who mean well and starts conceding the point in small ceramic increments over the course of a lifetime. The Bird porcelain vase entered production in 2004 as one of the studio's first figurative pieces, and it has stayed there without a redesign, because the shape solved its own problem on the very first firing. A porcelain vessel takes form around a modest ceramic bird set into the vase's shoulder, mid-stride, appearing to inspect whatever stem you have placed inside the neck of the piece. Sometimes the bird looks approving. Often it does not. The studio already knows who this piece is for in your life, even though the team here and you have never actually met in person. They will know immediately who sent it. And they will also be right about that assumption.

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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Carp Ceramic Unique Flower 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. The Bird carries figuration in low relief along the shoulder; the Carp vase turns the same instinct sideways, stretching a fish body across a countertop with one small opening near the spine for a stem. Same studio, same disinterest in over-explaining an object.

Kapow ceramic vase in Lovebird rose and white with fresh stems — designed in Toronto by Chive Studio

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. For the Bird, the decision was figuration at low height — a small character built into the shoulder of a functional vessel, not perched on top of one. On a bookshelf the piece reads as a companion to the paperbacks; in a windowsill it borrows light for the porcelain and returns it as texture. Both placements have their defenders. Browse the wider ceramic vases collection to see where the Bird sits in the group.

Ceramic Wall Art — Pearl Ranunculus

The Bird pairs quietly with wall pieces from the studio's ceramic flower catalogue — the Buttercup Yellow Elegance Ranunculus wall piece hangs above the vase without borrowing its light. The two ceramics register as a single material family instead of a mixed shelf, and the bird approves silently from where it stands.

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