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American Chalkware Lovebirds.  In Multiple Visions Gallery, location 20-12.
Lovebirds
American Chalkware Lovebirds.  In Multiple Visions Gallery, location 20-12.
American Chalkware Lovebirds. In Multiple Visions Gallery, location 20-12.
Museum of International Folk Art; Gift of the Girard Foundation Collection. Photographs by Michel Monteaux.

Lovebirds

NameChalkware; Sculpture
Artist Artist Not Recorded
Date19th century
Place madePennsylvania, United States, North America
MediumCeramic, paint
Dimensions3 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (8.3 × 9.5 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of the Girard Foundation Collection, A.1980.9.659
Object numberA.1980.9.659
DescriptionPoured plaster, molded, painted. Two white lovebirds with red and gold painted feathers. Resting on painted green grass with red, gold, and ipe. Birds face one another with beaks touching.
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