How to clean the inside of them?

Warm water and a mild soap will shift most dust. Do not soak earthenware pieces, as water can seep through crazed glaze and stain the clay body beneath. Use a soft bottle brush if dirt is stubborn. Harsh chemicals or bleach will strip the overglaze enamels off.

I inherited a matching pair from my grandmother with big flowers stuck on the front and some petals are chipped, does this matter?

Chipped petals are expected on encrusted wares. Those delicate clay flowers break easily, and finding a pair without some minor losses is unusual. Most collectors accept this sort of damage as part of the object's history. Just handle them by the main body rather than the decorated front when you move them.

What are the tiny holes in the base?

Those are vent holes from the firing process. When a vase is heavily moulded, trapped air expands in the kiln and can blow the piece apart. The potter pierced the base to let the hot air escape.

We have a vase that looks slightly leaning to one side when you put it on a flat table, why is it wonky?

Clay warps during the firing process as it loses moisture and shrinks. The heat in nineteenth-century bottle kilns was difficult to control evenly. If one side of the vase got hotter than the other, it pulled and set on a tilt. It is a common quirk of early mass production.

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Antique Staffordshire vases are decorative ceramic vessels made in the English Midlands, originally designed to hold floral arrangements or stand empty as bright mantelpiece garnitures.

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