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Monday, 15 April 2013
The Birds
Posted on 21:00
by Ashish Chaturvedi
A spectacularly large sculpture - a flock of fancy birds from
Barbini
, circa 1950. Parakeets have never looked lovelier than rendered in blush and gold Murano glass.
22" tall
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