Rainbow Book of Genesis chapter 9, as part of the flood story of Noah, where it is a sign of God's covenant to never destroy all life on earth with a global flood again. In Norse mythology, the rainbow bridge Bifröst connects the world of men (Midgard) and the realm of the gods (Asgard). Cuchavira was the god of the rainbow for the Muisca in present-day Colombia and when the regular rains on the Bogotá savanna were over, the people thanked him offering gold, snails and small emeralds. The Irish leprechaun's secret hiding place for his pot of gold is usually
Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship with no lid, the "cuvette à masques", produced from 1754 (earliest example, at Houghton Hall), and the shape of the "pot pourri à vaisseau" was also used in an adaptation as a lidded tureen with a stand, the "terrine gondole" from at least 1757 (two in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna), and a different "pot pourri gondole". The popularity of Sèvres porcelain with English collectors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is demonstrated by the presence of all ten known examples of this shape of vase in English collections by the mid-nineteenth century. Today there is one in France, five