A white tulip vase with a trendy cylindrical shape. This snow-white tulip vase is one of our most iconic tulip vases. The tulip vase has the shape of a cylinder and the characteristic small spouts are all on top of the vase and point straight up. The tulip vase was created after Queen Mary II commissioned Delft potters to make a vase with which she could fill her rooms with fresh flowers. The tulip vase then became wildly popular and also played an important role in the tulip mania in the Netherlands, when some varieties of tulips cost more than a canal house in Amsterdam. You wouldn’t, of course, put such expensive flowers in an ordinary vase. The various little spouts of the tulip vase give the delicate flower stems firm support so the flowers are not damaged and stay beautiful for longer — something we still benefit from today.