Is there really such a thing?

Say perhaps, in your wanderings you happen upon a nice vase. Sitting there in the sun looking pretty, smart and funny. You pick it up, take it home and prominently display it on your mantle...

 

a few months pass and you're bored of looking at the same vase day in and day out.. you pick it up to take it out to the curb and in doing so you accidentally slip and drop it on the ground. Shattering it to a hundred pieces.

 

You can glue all you want, will it ever be as good? Or will the hairline cracks and fractures show through it's false bravado, leak water all over the floor and make a mess of the home of the next person that takes it in.

 

Just wondering.