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The Queen's Cup
c.1957RCIN 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.