Don't really like it. No offense, but it's totally useless as a vase, and is a shape that is going to get knocked over all the time and roll away, plus it's got those huge defects in the sides and neck. I've seen more beautiful wood grain in maple many times. It doesn't have the illusion of 3-dimensional depth that maple grain can have.
I mean.. it's obviously just a matter of opinion, but that's a pretty common shape for turned vases like that. It's the kind of vase that will sit up on a shelf somewhere as an art piece, so it's pretty unlikely it's going to get kicked around.. But, yeah, maple burl is very hard to top in terms of beauty. The word you're looking for is chatoyance, which I saw a couple spots in this piece would make that effect, but he didn't rotate the vase at all to show that.
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