Gourd Shaped

Sotheby The gourd-shaped vase, covered in lotus flowers and vine-like tendrils, was made in the Imperial workshops of Qianlong. ❋ Kelly Crow (2010)

The gourd-shaped vase, covered in lotus flowers and vine-like tendrils, was made in the Imperial workshops of Qianlong. ❋ Kelly Crow (2010)

A beer basket is a very finely woven basket, often somewhat gourd-shaped. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Kumkam,” a gourd-shaped bottle of metal, china or glass, still used for sprinkling scents. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In front of her she held a hollow, gourd-shaped half rock. ❋ Dorothy Hearst (2008)

The centerpiece is a traditional tearoom decorated with Yayoi Kusama's trademark multicolored polka dots and a giant gourd-shaped helium balloon. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They also had drinking horns and gourd-shaped utensils from which they lapped their broth and similar greasy, congealed, unwashed abominations. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The two bridesmaids presented each of them with an empty gourd-shaped vase, which they exchanged with each other, and then the bridesmaids left. ❋ Jung Chang (1991)

Weiss noticed that they had long, gourd-shaped heads. ❋ Voltz, William (1975)

The gourd-shaped head began to sway from side to side as though mounted on a ball joint. ❋ Voltz, William (1975)

The wrinkled gourd-shaped head looked even uglier in the strange light than before. ❋ Voltz, William (1975)

Sausages, chitterlings, gourd-shaped cheeses, hams with grayish rinds, as though they had been kept under ashes, hung from the ceiling, and in the window could be seen enormous flat loaves straight from the Massif Central. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1965)

The Cliff Swallow builds its gourd-shaped {136} mud nest under the eaves and hence is widely known as the Eaves Swallow. ❋ Thomas Gilbert Pearson (N/A)

As they scoop the water up in the gourd-shaped earthenware jars bound to their rims, they shriek and groan on their giant wooden axles. ❋ Kermit Roosevelt (1916)

But in a corner I espied a dark-brown, gourd-shaped object. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Flemish style, containing the chime of bells, and the machinery of the carillon, and topping all was a sort of inverted bulb or gourd-shaped turret, covered with blue slate, with a gilded weathervane about which the rooks flew in clouds. ❋ George Wharton Edwards (1904)