Set Of Six 1960’s Blue 4 Oz. Glasses Featuring Gilded Hand Painted Red Crowned Cranes – Japan Signed

$475.00

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Description

This gorgeous set of azure blue and white glasses each feature hand painted white cranes with gold outlines. They are signed by the artist, in mint condition, and in the original box. Some information about the Japanese crane and meaning:

“The Red-crowned, or Japanese, Crane is a potent icon. In symbolic form, Tancho, as it is known in Japanese, is the bird of happiness and long life (in fable it lives for a 1,000 years)”
“Celebrated and revered throughout Japan, the bird is symbolic of longevity, luck, love and much more.”