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Eglomise painting of basket painted reddish orange with diamond weave pattern holding assorted polychrome flowers. Two birds: one in the flowers on the left and one above flowers to the right. Background painted black. Glass backed with crinkled tinfoil. Heavy molded wooden frame with gilded gesso on the front, sides unpainted.
pictures (two-dimensional representations)
verre églomisé
glass (material)
tinfoil
Picture
Picture
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
20 x 26 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.764
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