Expression: blobs of gilt

[Haihao]

Hi,

Could you please help me with:

Ye Art Shoppe, Prop. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilks, Christian Science Library open daily free. A touching fumble at beauty. A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco. A show-window delicately rich in error: vases starting out to imitate tree-trunks but running off into blobs of gilt–an aluminum ash-tray labeled “Greetings from Gopher Prairie”–a Christian Science magazine–a stamped sofa-cushion portraying a large ribbon tied to a small poppy, the correct skeins of embroidery-silk lying on the pillow. Inside the shop, a glimpse of bad carbon prints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a padded rocking chair.

1. Does it mean: vases that had been purposed to imitate tree-trunks but consequently went off that purpose and became some golden masses? If so, since ‘a blob’ means ‘an amorphous mass’ how could vases come to that?

Many thanks.

Haihao

[Mister_Micawber]

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The vases are generally tree-trunk designs, but the realization is poorly done, the design is unclear, and the gilt glaze is blobby, especially (I envision) at the top and bottom of the vase. If you have seen cheap chinaware, you can imagine how the design is unclearly executed.
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[Haihao]

Oh, that’s what it is to it! I got the whole picture now, Mister Micawber, and thank you again.

Haihao