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The Ricardo’s Cinzano Ashtray

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Cinzano Ashtray in the Ricardo’s hotel room

Below is a collectible vintage Cinzano ashtray like one seen in the Ricardo’s hotel room in the screen capture above. At that time Cinzano was still a family run business based in Turin Italy that had been in business since the 1700’s. The I Love Lucy set dresser added well chosen European pieces to evoke a sense of place for the Ricardo’s trip to Europe, in this instance to decorate the set of Lucy and Ricky’s Monte Carlo hotel room.

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Vintage Cinzano glass ashtray – click picture to view the eBay listing

Lucy goes to Monte Carlo: Watteau Painting Print

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Monte Carlo Hotel set: Framed print of Festival of Love by Jean Antoine Watteau

An ornate framed print of The Feast (or Festival) of Love by Jean-Antoine Watteau is seen in the set of the Monte Carlo hotel on I Love Lucy.

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The Feast (or Festival) of Love (1718 – 1719) Oil on canvas, 61 x 75 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

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The Mertzes in Monte Carlo: Nicholas Lancret Framed Print

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Ethel and Fred Mertz in their Monte Carlo room

On the wall of the Mertzes Monte Carlo hotel room is a well known Nicholas Lancret framed print called La Camargo Dancing. Also seen on the chest of drawers beside the door is a figurine we saw in the Mertzes Connecticut home in another I Love Lucy episode. A figurine of a colonial lady, Florence Ceramics “Charmaine”.

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Nicholas Lancret La Camargo Dancing Nicolas Lancret – La Camargo – c.1730, oil on canvas Washington, National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection – © Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

The woman dancing in the painting is Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo a famous French/Belgian ballet dancer known as La Camargo. She was first woman to execute the entrechat quatre,  the first dancer to wear slippers instead of heeled shoes, and also first to wear the shorter calf-length ballet skirt and the now standard ballet tights.

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Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo: George Bickham Framed Print

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Lucy in Monte Carlo- A framed musical print on the wall from The Musical Entertainer (George Bickham Jr.)

On the wall of the Ricardo’s Monte Carlo hotel room is a framed print of an antique song sheet.

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The Musical Entertainer George Bickham Jr

The sheet music is reproduced from an original copper plate print by engraver George Bickham. The sheet of music entitled “Reason for Loving”  is from an antique song book The Musical Entertainer circa 1737 and 1739 Vol II.  The book in two volumes can be viewed or downloaded at:  http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Musical_Entertainer_(Bickham_Jr.,_George)

Similar framed vintage prints can be found on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=George+Bickham+Musical+Entertainer+&_sacat=0