Ink Pot Vase (Bud) | Anastasio Home x Janie Kruse Garnett

The cone ink bottle was the most common ink bottle of the nineteenth century — faceted, squat, and wide at the base so a dip pen couldn't tip it over. Collectors know the form as the umbrella ink. Most stood between two and three inches tall; this bud vase holds that scale exactly, at three inches, and keeps the geometry with it: a wide cone, a ringed shoulder, a narrow collar.

The narrow mouth takes a stem or two upright — the short, fully-stemmed flowers a taller vase would swallow — and solid marble gives even three inches of vase enough weight to stay where it's set, on a windowsill, a nightstand, or the rim of a sink. Offered in four stones: Matcha, Cherry Gold, Midnight, and Jet.

Janie's Note: My mother dug a Victorian glass ink jar out of the garden when I was small, and I claimed it on sight as my bedside bud vase. This is that jar, scaled into marble — the right size for a few short stems, and impossible to knock over. — Janie Kruse Garnett

Dimensions: 3" Diameter x 3" H

Janie Kruse Garnett designs jewelry on the logic of classical architecture — trained in art history, with Palladio, Inigo Jones, and the golden ratio among her working references. This collaboration carries that bench-scale precision into stone. Each vessel is drawn from a classical source — a newel-post finial, a mustard pot, a Victorian rose bowl — and engineered to hold flowers in practice: rounded lips where a stem might otherwise snap, wide bases that resist tipping, and enough marble weight to steady a tall, top-heavy bouquet. Every piece is carved in Indian marble by the artisans of our Rajasthan atelier in a limited production run.