Somebody reminded me that, that word 'fancy' — which in a sense for me, encapsulated this object — actually comes from the same root as the word 'fantasy.' And that what this object was just as much in a way, in its own way, as a Leonardo da Vinci painting, is a portal to somewhere else.
Эта ваза была по-своему, так же, как и картина да Винчи, окном в иной мир.