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They were often backed by starched lace or wire-wrapped greenery and held in a decorative vaselike “posy holder” made from silver, brass, porcelain, ivory or pearl.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

The ratios of the contrasting metals continue to fluctuate in a group of trays and vaselike hookah bases, as do treatments for water, flowering plants, horizon lines and architecture.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2015