Coming to this thread a little late, but would just like to point out that this shape of vase is the shape of a standard, but beautiful and elegant piece of lab equipment.
Known as a volumetric flask, they are used for very accurate measurements of liquid, eack flask being individually calibrated.
There is a large body to hold the amount, but only a very tiny "surface area" to the top of the liquid, and there is a permanent mark made on the neck of the bottle where the bottom of the meniscus should lie.
So Monax (the lab part of Monart) were making them way back in the '30s, although I imagine they've been made for far longer.