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Hugely detailed and crowded old-master oil painting, depicting all the gifts from the "Twelve Days of Christmas" song: a central marching band comprising twelve drummers and eleven pipers, accompanied by nine dancing ladies and ten leaping lords. On the left, eight milkmaids gathered with their cows and six nesting geese plus three French hens. On the right, a pond with seven swans. Behind the band rises trees with birds in their branches: a pear tree with a partridge; four open-mouthed songbirds; five ring-necked pheasants; and two turtle doves. Style of Rembrandt, with all the creatures rendered in bright colours that pop against a dark background.