The stage is up front, with a plush red curtain bordered by immense wooden roses painted gold.

She led the way up the steps and into her comfortable sitting-room where rocking-chairs were fitted with quilted pads and where the Rochester lamps wore china shades with roses painted on them.

But then what is Wonderland if not a celebration of special effects from white roses being painted red to Cheshire Cats dismantling before your eyes?

On the corner, neighbors laid out a makeshift memorial of white roses and candles painted with saints.

It includes 132 watercolours of roses painted by Alfred Parsons between 1890 ans 1908, which are now held by the Lindley Library in London.

The teacups-with matching saucers-were tiny, fragile bone-china things with pink roses painted inside and out, a gold rim and a handle he couldn't possibly get a finger through.

A tiny PPK with a rose painted on its white enamel handle fitted the movie's girlish Myra character, while a slightly more butch revolver fit Debbie.

I turned to Plate 59, and there was my rose, painted by Mr. Thomas.

Or deface the friezes of roses painted on Belgian linen in the living room.

The china door-plate had roses painted on it.