Details
- Dimensions
- 12ʺW × 12ʺD × 9.25ʺL
- Pattern
- Animalia
- Period
- Late 20th Century
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Fabric
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Dark Green
- Condition Notes
- Excellent vintage condition with age appropriate wear and signs of use. Excellent vintage condition with age appropriate wear and signs of use. less
- Description
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Absolutely love this late-20th century dark green fabric lamp shade with flora motif and whimsical cameo of Aesop's 'The Crane …
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Absolutely love this late-20th century dark green fabric lamp shade with flora motif and whimsical cameo of Aesop's 'The Crane and the Fox." The shade's cotton fabric is a rich, dark green with the pattern in light beige, tan, and ink blue. The cameo depicts Aesop’s crane drinking soup from a tall flagon with the fox looking on, rather despondently.
This shade is in excellent vintage condition. Diameter measures 7.5” (top) and 12” (bottom). Height measures 9.25”. Slant height measures 9.5”. For your amusement, a translation of Aesop's 'Crane and the Fox" fable reads as follows:
'A Fox invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish. The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement. The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck and enjoy its contents at his leisure. The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.'
The moral of the fable is 'People will treat you the same way you treat them.' less
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