"Venetian Lions" - {Your blog editor, a.k.a. "The Modern Renaissance Man," notes the parallels between the backlit lion's mane, so strikingly similar to the winged lion of St. Mark, "the emblem of Venice," and the Venetian sailboats floating in the background. -ed. }

Rare John Derbyshire Uranium green glass lion. These lions were molded in only a two year period: 1874 & 1875. A similar glass lion was exhibited in the prestigious Victoria Albert museum, London, England.

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"Leos in Tandem" - Two glass lions displaying the duality of nature (which often comes in pairs). {For the musicologists among us, we recall the song title "Stella by Starlight" - a jazz standard written by Victor Young and featured in the 1944 Paramount Pictures release "The Uninvited" - featured as the inspiration for our rendition: "Lions by Candlelight." - ed.}