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Description: | Plain clear glass with long straight sided bowl, slightly curved at the bottom and widening at the top, made with slight vertical ripples all over, supported on a short hour glass shaped stem, the whole supported on a small flat base. The whole engraved with a cut spray of roses round the base and with a scene on the bowl of two birds on a branch of a tree with a background of buildings and dove cotes, and inscription "Deux Pigeons s'aimorent d'amour tendre" - the first line of La Fontaine's fable "Les Deux Pigeons".
Size: Height: 16 cm.
G.295 | License: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/terms/ | Rights holder: | The Bowes Museum | Subjects: | 396 | Source: | Bowes-OAI | Identifier: | http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collect... | Go to resource |
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