Floating Head Vase, Porcelain Bust | Sculptural Vases

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Floating Head Vase — Porcelain Bust on Plaster Base

This floating head vase turns a classical bust upside down, balancing it on a slim plaster base so the whole piece seems to hang in mid-air rather than sit on a shelf. Cast in porcelain with a matching plaster stand, it reads as a small piece of surrealist sculpture that happens to hold flowers. Every piece ships free worldwide with duties paid, delivered by DHL, FedEx, or UPS, so the price at checkout is the price you pay.

About the Floating Head Vase

The Floating Head Vase is built in two parts — a porcelain head, inverted so the crown becomes the vase’s base, and a separate plaster stand that lifts it clear of the tabletop. Modeled on the proportions of a classical bust, the piece keeps the familiar profile of a portrait sculpture while removing the pedestal expected underneath it, so the head appears to float rather than rest. The opening for flowers sits where the neck would normally continue, hidden in plain sight.

Portrait sculpture in this format is traditionally called a bust, a head-and-shoulders figure historically mounted upright on a pedestal to commemorate a person. Turning that convention upside down is what gives this piece its charge: instead of a solemn likeness looking outward, it becomes a vessel, its gravity reversed and its formality undercut by the very shape it’s known for. The plaster base plays the role the missing pedestal would have, just inverted along with everything else on top of it.

Specifications

How to Style the Floating Head Vase

Because the silhouette does most of the work, this piece is happiest kept on its own — a console table, a mantel, or a plinth where nothing crowds its outline. It pairs well by contrast with rounder, more traditional forms like our terra loop vase, letting the two shapes argue gently with each other across a room. Browse the full sculptural vases collection for more pieces that treat the vase as sculpture first and container second.

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