Ceiling decoration, comprising two wire hoops joined by threads that are strung with dried peas. The lower wire hoop is larger than the upper one, and both are covered with green and pink wool. The hoops are both ornamented with eight wool pompoms of many different coloured, spaced around the edge at regular intervals, with additional pompoms haning from strings of the pea-covered thread. In the centre is a very large, multicoloured pompom. Poland.
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