This is the screen-used original Utrillo print “Restaurant au Mont Cenis” we can see on so many episodes of “I love Lucy” It was sold at auction on July 30, 2013 by PROFILES IN HISTORY for $8,000. It is a print from an original painting of a street in Montmartre, Paris, by Maurice Utrillo, a native of Montmartre, who painted it in 1922. It is interesting to compare it to the vintage postcard circa 1908, photographed from an almost identical vantage point
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The Ricardo’s set also had a Sierra-Columbia planter. The one indicated in the screen capture above from an “I Love Lucy” episode is a typical design from Sierra-Columbia of Pasadena California. The design seen above is a ceramic planter inside a brass effect metal holder. An interesting thing about the metal holder is that it was recycled leftover metal from their scissors manufacturing. 
