Collecting Hyacinth Vases
This site provides information about collecting hyacinth and other glass bulb vases, tells you about the process of forcing bulbs on them indoors and shows some of their colourful beauty and great diversity. A chapter about crocus pots is also included.

Hyacinth and other bulb vases in many shapes and colours.

Deze collectie hyacintglazen ( bollenglazen) van Wim Granneman is te koop. De collectie is heel veel groter dan op deze website te zien is. Delen ervan zijn al in diverse musea tentoongesteld. De collectie is ook in gedeeltes te koop, bijvoorbeeld per land van herkomst. Voor meer informatie kunt u het contactformulier invullen.

This collection of hyacinth vases (bulb vases) belonging to Wim Granneman is for sale. The collection consists of many more vases than shown on this website. Parts of the collection have been on exhibition in various museums. The collection is also for sale in parts, for instance by country of origin. For more information: please use the contact form.

Diese Sammlung von Hyazinthengläsern (Zwiebelvasen) von Wim Granneman ist zu verkaufen. Die Sammlung ist sehr viel größer, als hier auf der Website gezeigt wird. Teile davon sind in den vergangenen Jahren in Museen ausgestellt worden. Die Sammlung ist auch in Teilen zu verkaufen, z. B. nach Herkunftsländern. Für mehr Informationen benutzen Sie bitte das Kontaktformular.

Cette collection de vases à jacinthe (vases à bulbe)  de Wim Granneman est à vendre. La collection est beaucoup plus grande que montré sur le site web. Beaucoup de vases de la collection ont été exposés dans des musées. C’est aussi possible d’acheter des selections, par example selon leurs pays d’origine. Si vous êtes intéressés, svp usez le questionnaire.

这些风信子花瓶系列（风信子球根花瓶）是收藏家Wim Granneman先生多年精心收集的藏品，现在正在出售。实际收藏系列比在本网站所示的更加经典齐全。部分收藏品用于展览，保存在各个博物馆中。 这些藏品也可以部分出售，或者按原产国出售。有关更多信息：请和我们联系,表格如下。

Уникальная коллекция ваз для гиацинтов ( вазы под луковицы), принадлежащая Виму Грэннемэну, выставлена на продажу. В коллекции намного большее количество ваз, чем можно увидеть на сайте. Частично коллекция не раз выставлялась в различных музеях. Коллекция также продаётся частями, например, исходя из страны происхождения. Для более подробной информации, пожалуйста, воспользуйтесь формой для контактов.

このコレクションはヒアシンスなどの球根をのせて、お花を楽しむ花瓶で、Wim Granneman所有のコレクションで、現在売却希望です。
このサイトの写真よりも、もっと沢山の在庫があります。製造された場所も様々な国で、一部は美術館にも展示されていたものです。
もちろん全てのコレクションを購入して頂かなくても、一部だけの購入も可能です。
詳しい情報は、このサイトのコンタクトでご連絡くださいませ。

Different blue bulb vases in the window-sill. Also without bulbs, nice to look at.

Postal card of ca 1910 of Hillegom. Nothing nicer than posing in the fragrance of a flowering hyacinth field.

More than four centuries ago the professional growing of flower bulbs was started not far from my home, around the city of Haarlem, west of Amsterdam. In the 17th century the tulip bulb trade resulted in the world-famous "Tulipmania", when tulip bulbs were sold at gigantic prices. About a century later the same happened with the hyacinth bulb, albeit on a smaller scale. The hyacinth became the flower of fashion! Soon the growing of hyacinths on glass was to follow, mainly to bring the flowering of the bulbs forward and have the blooms on one's windowsill in midwinter. All the more reason why I started collecting the beautiful, colourful and decorative bulb vases.

This website aims to give you a survey of the many different designs produced over the last centuries and the growing of bulbs on them. However the pictures show only a small sample of the great diversity of existing vases! Perhaps the site will encourage you to start collecting them or forcing bulbs on vases in the home! Enjoy watching the sunlight shining through a row of these colourful vases in your window sill.

Good collecting! Collecting hyacinth vases is fun!

Wim Granneman

Acknowledgements
First of all, I would like to express my thanks to Jet Schokker and Robert Sutcliffe for all their help with the English language. I am grateful to Willy Peelen for putting pictures at my disposal of her forcing experiments on those most exceptional ‘antipode bulb vases’ and Gjalt Welling for the beautiful picture he made of my collection of Leerdam vases. The latter was first published in the book ‘Bloeiend Glas’ (Flowering Glass) of 2009, the book in which Sytske Welling Wester published her chapter on Dutch bulb vases. The results of her extensive research on this subject were a great help to me in describing the Dutch bulb vases of this site. My son Jan-Willem, I would like to thank for starting this project in 1998 and his help on the first three versions. And last but not least, I owe Miek Stap of Stap Projects my gratitude for her patience and all her work on the creative design of this, much more extensive, fourth version of the website.

Wim Granneman

1998 May – 1st version
2001 March – 2nd version
2004 December- 3rd version
2012 March – 4th version
2018 August - Collection for sale!

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