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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4390845, member: 5833&quot;]Think we have been considering whether the lamp was made in France, not whether the lady holding the lamp is meant to be French.&nbsp; She is clearly meant to be &#039;exotic&#039;, also a bit sexy.&nbsp; There is no reason to believe she is ethnographically accurate rather than an artistic fantasy figure out of the mysterious East.</p><p><br /></p><p>The image on this glass intaglio is known as &#039;the Fair Circassian.&#039;&nbsp; I doubt very much the artist ever saw a Circassian woman.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369707[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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