Plot
The crowd watches as she walks forward and unthreads a pale rose. Its thornless stem, shaven into meek concave depressions, fits her fingers.
Collecting
Things on the windowsill,
amongst books,
on the mantelpiece,
in a jewellery box,
on the desk,
in a wide flat bowl,
in a glass cabinet,
hanging in the studio.
French cast iron cacao shell trinket box from Paris
Nautilus shell found on beach in Oman
Victorian sawfish bill
Ship in a Chanel bottle
Carved hare on burr
Flint nodule creature
Driftwood from Andalucia
Fossilised megladon tooth
Syro-Hittite tomb bull
1920s porcelain mermaid
Large ammonite
Bronze female torso
Coral mounted on marble
Fossilised conch seashell
Old carved Brazil nut fruit(8 Brazil nut seeds inside)
Japanese Meiji bookweight in the shape of a dragon
Polished lapis lazuli
Meteor-struck moonlike paperweight
Shiva Lingam (stone) from India
Sand paperweight
Tin mechanised fish swallowing fish
Royal Crown Derby golden octopus
Horseshoe crab shell
Fossilised sea anemone
Vine knot
Old wood burr for veneering (olive)
Fossilised sea urchin from Morocco
Victorian wooden spinning top
Swirled glass paperweight
Papier maché birds from India, 1880
Desert rose from Andalucia, Spain
Crystal Palace paperweight
A pair of painted lead giraffes
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