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Description: | Design for table decoration in the form of comport or central feature comprising a ten-sided shaped footed bowl with bells hanging from the rim containing flowers or biscuits supporting via a pole or rope a globe from which depends four other globes with birds on the attachments, terminating in a globe with a spire at the top. The whole is set on a circular stand on which are six (visible) small cups, which in turn rests of feet of two putti riding eagles on either side of a central kneeling putto bearing a coat-of-arms above his head. Size: 25.7 x 18 cm. Bought with aid of grants from the Friends of The Bowes Museum, the National Art Collections Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund. | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 1763 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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