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Arcade with Serpents and Fireworks

ca. 1780

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, semicircular arcade with straight returns, crowned with pyramidal decorations in white, pink, and green. Above, star in white with white and open pierced radiations. Receding rows of hedge, in green with pink flowers. Before the arcade, elabroate fireworks, a pyramid, and two serpents with rays of light radiating from their mouths.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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