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PV Enduring elegance
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Precious Visions collection, "Enduring Elegance" by Janene Grende.
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$35.00
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Precious Visions collection, "Enduring Elegance" by Janene Grende. Fourth issue in the series. Bradford Exchange, 1996. Plate size approx. 8 inches. Suggested Retail Price $50.00.
The calliope hummingbird ... even its name evokes harmony and beauty, for Calliope, in Greek mythology, was the Muse both of eloquence and of epic poetry. It is only fitting that the calliope's favorite flower should be the columbine. For this unusual spurred plant got its name from "columba" (the dove), since it was once thought to resemble a flock of beautiful doves in flight.
Artist Janene Grende's "Enduring Elegance," the fourth issue in her Precious Visions plate collection, captures the dazzling beauty of this miniature bird to perfection. The calliope is the smallest of the North American hummingbirds—so tiny, in fact, that on first looking at "Enduring Elegance," it seems that even the showy columbine blossoms, with their long, curved spurs, are much larger than the pair of calliope hummingbirds who have stopped by for a meal of sweet nectar.
But the spectacular iridescence of the birds' plumage more than makes up for their diminutive size. Seize the moment, marvel at the male's shimmering rose-purple gorget, and enjoy the calliope's "Enduring Elegance"!
The creation of the fine collector's plate you have just acquired and whose authenticity is certified by this document is the result of work by an international cadre of skilled artisans. After the plate art was created in the United States, a fine ceramic transfer, incorporating pigments carefully chosen to faithfully re-create the vibrant beauty of the artist's original, was created in France and Germany and permanently fired into the fine Japanese porcelain plate body at more than 1,460° Fahrenheit by talented craftsmen and craftswomen in the United States.
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