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Detail of the Vessel of friendship, a gold model of a Chinese ship
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Queen's Cup

c.1957

RCIN 63175

The vase is etched with American flowers and trees, including tulips, daylily, arbutus, bluet, bluebells, violets, Joe Pye weed, tobacco, maize, sumac, pine, holly, chestnut, magnolia, hickory and elm. There are also several animals amongst the plants, including a pheasant, a fox, a racoon, and a white-tailed deer.


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