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4 FRAMED FLOWER TILES, BOTANICAL

BEAUHARNAIS JOSEPHINE DE: (1763-1814) Empress of the French 1804-14, the first wife of Napoleon I. L.S., Lapagerie Bonaparte, two pages, 8vo, n.p. (Chateau de Malmaison?), 30th May 1800, to an unidentified recipient, in French. Josephine thanks her correspondent for the plants which she had been promised and informs her correspondent that her gardener (Alexander Howatson?) will receive and take care of the plants, which she provides a list of, and which includes a rose, as well as various species of Eucalyptus, Magnolia, Laurel and Hibiscus etc. She further invites her correspondent to visit her garden and provide her with some advice. The text of the letter is in the hand of Mme. De Remusat. Some very light, minor age wear, otherwise VG £2000-3000 In 1799, while Napoleon was in Egypt, Josephine purchased the Chateau de Malmaison. She had it landscaped in an English style, hiring landscapers and horticulturalists from the United Kingdom including Thomas Blaikie, a Scottish horticultural expert, and Alexander Howatson, a Scottish gardener. The rose garden was begun soon after purchase and Josephine took a personal interest in the gardens and the roses, as illustrated by the present letter, and learned a great deal about botany and horticulture from her staff. Josephine wanted to collect all known roses so Napoleon ordered his warship commanders to search all seized vessels for plants to be forwarded to Malmaison. The English nurseryman Kennedy was a major supplier and, despite England and France being at war, his shipments were allowed to cross blockades. Sir Joseph Banks, Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, also sent her roses. The general assumption is that she had about 250 roses in her garden when she died in 1814. Unfortunately, the roses were not catalogued during her tenure, however Josephine produced the first written history of the cultivation of roses, and is believed to have hosted the first rose exhibition, in 1810. The present letter was written just nine days before the Battle of Montebello on 9th June 1800, part of the lead-up to the Battle of Marengo on 14th June 1800, when the vanguard of the French Army in Italy engaged and defeated an Austrian force in a glorious victory. In 1795 Josephine Beauharnais met Napoleon Bonaparte, six years her junior, for the first time. She became his mistress and in January 1796 Napoleon proposed to her. The marriage was not well accepted by Napoleon's family, who were shocked that he had married an older woman with two children. As the wife of Napoleon, Josephine became the first Empress Consort of the French and was crowned by Pope Pius VII at Notre Dame de Paris on 2nd December 1804. She did not bear Napoleon any children and, as a result, he divorced her in 1810 to marry Marie Louise of Austria.

A GROUP OF BOTANICAL PAINTINGS, COMPANY SCHOOL, PROBABLY TRICHINOPOLY (TIRUCHIRAPALLI), 19TH CENTURY gouache on mica, twelve paintings framed together 14 X 9.5cm each inside mount Provenance: Private collection, London Descriptions in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports and all lots are sold as viewed. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in good condition. Prospective bidders are recommended to request a condition report prior to bidding, wherever possible satisfying themselves in person at the gallery as to the condition of a lot.

Two 19th Century botanical watercolours, each of a floral bouquet, one 36 x 25cm in gilt frame, the other 42 x 35cm and signed in pencil 'Miss B B+++', in oak frame, background torn and grubby (2)

Five 19th Century watercolour studies comprising a pair of botanical ovals, backgrounds stained, 16cm in gilt frames, another of pansies, 12 x 16.5cm in simulated frame, a pencil and watercolour study of a peacock on pressed paper panel and initialled 'SD' 19 x 14.5cm, in gilt frame, and another of mixed flowers on pressed paper panel, 15 x 19cm in frame (5)

Botanical and other watercolour studies comprising five botanical watercolour studies, four mounted, largest 23.5 x 15cm, a watercolour of a girl with basket, another of a girl with basket on coastal path, pencil detail, signed 'J. Golding, Dec 21', a watercolour amusement of a roped botanical oval flanked by six fan shaped botanical studies, 7cm, and a colour print of a vase of flowers (9)

Three framed pictures comprising an oval botanical watercolour, 20cm, a monochrome print 'The Darling Asleep', 20 x 15cm, and a floral Berlin wool work pattern, 16 x 22cm, all framed (3)

A pair of English porcelain botanical plates, circa 1820, each painted with a flower study inside a gilt rim, 23cm diameter, a group of four turquoise ground porcelain plates, painted with pastoral landscape vignettes, 23cm diameter, and two apricot ground porcelain square fruit plates with flower decoration, 25cm wide (8).

A large stoneware flagon, partially-glazed and named "Burgis & Colbourne", 43cm high and two others, "J H Jones & Sons" and "Barnsley Botanical Brewery Co.", (3).

F.H. Adams - Reilly (c. 1867)A set of 18 Botanical watercolours, each mounted and titled verso, all signed and dated 1867, all 11 1/2" x 9 1/4" (29cms x 23cms), including mount, all unframed, contained in a pine box. (18)

Pair Regency Flight, Barr & Barr Botanical dessert dishes and pair matching plates with central painted botanical specimen within gilt and apple-green borders, entitled on bases, impressed marks (4)

Two vintage stoneware flagons with printed merchants labels J Booth late Booth Bros botanical brewer, Darlington, a similar Booth example, two ginger beer bottles, etc

An 18th century cottage gateleg dining table in oak, raised on bobbin moulded supports, enclosing a single frieze drawer (later) 95cm long, together with After George Morland (late 18th century) - Boys Bathing and Boys Robbing an Orchard, pair of black and white engravings by E Scott, published 1790 by JR Smith, 37 x 44cm, and also together with a coloured print of a botanical subject

A collection of fifteen reproduction coloured prints of late 18th century style botanical engravings, 24cm square in green and gilt frames, together with three coloured prints of further botanical subjects, 50 x 40cm in gilt frames

A collection of various assorted prints to include Vanity Fair, George Cruickshank, various framed Botanical book plates and others

A Whitefriars style bowl, 31cm diameter and seven botanical plates Condition Report: Lot 295:- Glass bowl is undamaged. The plates are also undamaged but have stained crazing.

A pair of Minton plates decorated fairies within blue celeste borders, signed beneath Florence Judd, 24cm diameter and eight Minton botanical dessert plates Condition Report: Judd plates in good condition with very minor wear and scratches, the one with seated fairy has short glaze crack to rim.Botanical plates have some rubbed enamels and gilt, three have discolouration to turquoise borders.

A Box of Pictures Inc Hereford Cathedral, Dutch Scene, Botanical Etc.

Still Life of Flowers, two early 20th botanical watercolours unsigned 28cm x 18cm and 26.5cm x 18.5cm (2) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Three Chamberlains Worcester soup Bowls decorated with hand painted botanical panels within a grey marbled border and gilt rims, probably from a specially commissioned service, 8" diameter.

A selection of 19th century and later decorated porcelain to include a Royal Doulton bottle vase, signed 'A.Scott', 25cm high, two Wedgwood Cameo ware yellow ground jars and cover, a Dresden vase and cover with Rams mask lugs and decorated with a reserve of a castle ruin, 25cm high, a Helena Wolfsohn chocolate cup, cover and stand, decorated with courting couples, a pedestal compart decoarted with botanical specimens, a German porcelain bleu celeste plate, 24cm diameter etc (12) (at fault) CONDITION REPORT: Doulton vase- Re-glued section to rim. Wedgwood- Slightly grubby with some light surface scratches. Dresden vase- Some light gilt and surface wear. Chocolate cup- Saucer with re-glued gallery. Cup with one handle restored, the other with section re-glued. Rim restored with descending hairline crack. Chip to rim. Floral knop to cover repaired. Botanical comport- Small chip to underside of rim. Surface scratching. Enamel chipping to floral border. Pits visible. German plate- Chip to rim.

English School - late 19th century, Watercolour, Landscape, 15cm x 23cm, Framed and glazed, With two signed limited edition engravings 'Swallow Chub - Watery Dun' and 'Corvidae', and three botanical prints (6)

A selection of nine 19th century botanical plates, comprising three examples painted with floral sprigs within a blue border, three various green ground examples and two painted and printed plates with a pale green ground, with a selection of Crown Derby and other imari items, three Majolica leaf moulded plates, other plates and a 19th century Majolica game pie dish and cover, (the lid chipped and the base cracked) CONDITION REPORT: One green ground plate with star crack to underside. Davenport plate with surface and enamel wear. One green plate with rim descending stained hairline cracks. Other green plate severely pitted. Derby saucer with rim descending stained hairline crack. Copeland Spode with extensive stained hairline crack. Two Imari bowls with extensive crazing, surface wear, stained hairline cracks etc. Copeland Spode teapot with stained crazing. Cabbage ware with extensive crazing. Game dish cover chipped, inner rim to dish chipped and large stained star crack to underside etc. All pieces of varying condition with signs of wear and use throughout. Majority with stained hairline cracks.

GB small number of better FDC's inc B.O.B. with Biggin Hill pmk, Lifeboat, FFH Week slogan, FRB Queensferry, Botanical, Churchill with Bladon pmk, etc, cat £600 approx (approx 18)

An extremely good Victorian botanical album 'Seaweeds', the brown leather and gilt album with brass clasp, opening to reveal 'The Seaweeds' Song' to front page and fifty one various pressed seaweed samples within the album.

Portmeirion ramekin, R.C.D 1126 plate, dishes vase of botanical garden, pencil case, Middle Eastern, napkin ring and clothes brush, Wedgwood, Aynsley, Ironstone plate, Old Avesbury, Royal Crown Derby 10 inch plate, two Posier (R.C.D) pin dishes, parcel lot, one box (17)

Two Bourne Denby teapots in botanical design, blue/grey manufactured for the Medici Society, Grafton Street, London

A 19th century watercolour, botanical study, and a coloured lithograph, still life of flowers, in gilt frames

A set of three 18th century hand-coloured botanical prints, in marbled mounts and gilt frames

Pictures and prints - Entwhistle, observational study of British birds; a 19th century botanical print, framed; another; others.

MISCELLANEOUS 18TH AND 19TH C BOTANICAL PRINTS, UNFRAMED

A collection of stamps: in two boxes with France, Great Britain 1964 botanical presentation pack, etc.

A STONEWARE FLAGON OF LOCAL INTEREST BOTANICAL BREWERS, TEDDESLEY STREET, WALSALL

THREE LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BOTANICAL PLATES AFTER A DESIGN BY MARIA SYBILLE MERIAN 18TH CENTURY Painted in underglaze blue and gilt with floral sprays to the centres within stylised chain borders, the cavettos with a thick border of acanthus leaves and gilt flowerheads, 38cm. (3) Provenance: from the collection of Hugh, 5th Earl Annesley (1831-1908) and thence by descent. Cf. J Harrison-Hall, R Krahl, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics from the British Museum, London. Ming and Qing Porcelain for the West, pp.186-187 for comparable examples of similar design in the collection of the British Museum in London. Ł500-1000 清道光 紅釉撇口碗《大清道光年製》青花篆書款來源：美國私人收藏。

PATIENCE ARNOLD WATERCOLOURS, A PAIR Botanical Studies each signed 7 1/4" x 4 3/4" (18.5cm x 12cm) ALSO DOREEN WESTWOOD WATERCOLOUR Wild foreground flowers, river landscape beyond Signed 5 1/2" x 9 1/4" x 9 1/4" (14cm x 23.5cm)

Presentation Packs: collection to 1971 in three albums incl F.R.B., Botanical and Geographical packs, a few German packs and some light duplication in places, generally fine

Set of six French botanical prints, housed in floral decorated gilt and ebonised frames, the prints 15cm x 24.5cm (6)

Set of six German botanical prints, housed in gilt and red painted glazed frames, the prints 14.5cm x 22cm (6)

Pair of later painted botanical engravings, housed in red and gilt floral decorated glazed frames, the engravings 19cm x 30cm (2)

SET OF THIRTEEN BOTANICAL PITH PAPER PAINTINGS, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY, mounted in a book with a woven silk cover, 26cm , 19cm,

A vintage Czech Republic botanical education wall chart.

Two Portmeirion botanical planters, together with another, (3)

Elspeth Harrigan Botanical Watercolour, signed in pencil, in a glazed gilt wood frame, 24 x 34cm

A quantity of framed and unframed but mounted botanical prints

A quantity of Royal Worcester Evesham and Portmeirion Botanical Garden tableware, to include lidded tureens

Good collection of early QEII & GEO VI FIRST DAY COVERS, some registered but lightly cancelled. Includes 1953 Coronation, '57 Jamboree, '60 General Letter Office, '58 Commonwealth, Red Cross, Botanical, Cable & Salvation Army, together with 9 x 1948 2 1/2d Olympic games FDC - Catalogue value in excess of £350.

Collection of Mount board framed Prints to include Botanical, Humorous, Advertising etc

Album of Watercolours. An album of fine watercolour studies of flowers, birds, and other subjects, by an anonymous artist, circa 1833-39, containing 31 carefully executed watercolours in total, all unsigned, a few dated to reverse, mostly floral subjects but also four monochrome pencil landscapes including Ludlow Castle and a lighthouse, a small watercolour of a moonlit ruined abbey, a pencil study of a racing whippet tinted with brown watercolour, three studies of birds, one of a butterfly, and two of fruit, the 19 botanical studies include groups and single examples, flowers include pink dog rose, petunia, peony, hellebore, passion flower, lily, pansy, chrysanthemum, periwinkle, sweet pea, etc., the largest sheet 22.5 x 18.5 cm (8.8 x 7.25 ins), all mounted to album leaves with watercolour decorative border or blindstamped border, without indication of the artist's name or ownership, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt and blind decorated full maroon morocco, a little rubbed to upper joint and extremities (generally in good condition), 4to (30 x 24 cm) (1)

*De Morgan (Evelyn, 1855-1919). A collection of botanical drawings and sketches, pencil on paper or card, some with watercolour, depicting various botanical subjects, including olive branches, poppies, narcissi, lilies, an iris, trees, apple blossom, some marks and stains, sheet size 66 x 53cm (26 x 21ins) and smaller (9)

Derby botanical part dinner service, with printed red crown and D mark c.1840. Central floral designs with hand painted details, solid green border, edged with gilding (flower names in red script on base). Soup Tureen and stand, centrepiece comport and four oval comports, five graduated meat plates and nine dinner plates.

A collection of late 19th Century / early 20th Century hand coloured lithographs botanical prints, to include ornithology pictures, shells, butterflies etc  

Portmeiron china including Botanical Series and PomonaBeing sold on behalf of Cystic Fibrosis and GUTS Fighting Bowel Cancer.

*Van Houtte (Louis). A collection of approximately 500 botanic lithographs, circa 1870, chromolithographs of botanical specimens, each approximately 240 x 170 mm (approx.500)

Various stoneware, comprising of a two coloured puzzle jug, the bulbous body raised with tavern scenes, with four spouts strap work handle and a circular moulded foot, 20cm high, a metal topped tavern scene jug and a two coloured stoneware flagon marked Dakin & Bros. Botanical Brewers Beeston, Nottingham, 1930, with corked top. (3)

Browne (Patrick). The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. In Three Parts. Containing, I. An Accurate Description of that Island... II. A History of the Natural Productions... III. An Account of the Nature of Climates..., 1st edition, 1756, half title (laid down), two folding engraved maps (one with small marginal hole, the other reinforced to verso), 49 engraved plates after G.D. Ehret and others, a few close-trimmed to outer margin shaving a few imprints, page 501 index leaf torn with loss of text at foot, title and dedication leaves repaired (loss to headline and first word of dedication leaf verso), final index leaf with small marginal repair, some spotting and toning, modern calf gilt, some fading to upper cover, folio Great Flower Books, page 52; Nissen ZBI 225; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 842. Browne, an Irish physician and botanist corresponded with Carl Linnaeus and was the first English-speaker to use the Linnaean system of classification. The plates are after the famous botanical illustrator and Linnaeus collaborator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1780). (1)

Hooker (William Jackson). A Century of Orchidaceous Plants Selected from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1849, 100 hand-coloured lithographed plates by and after W.H. Fitch, 14 page catalogue at end, occasional light marginal toning and spotting (plates generally clean), presentation inscription 1988, to front endpaper, top edge gilt, contemporary burgundy half morocco, joints and edges rubbed, 4to Great Flower Books 1990, page 103; Nissen BBI 918. (1)

*Chinese Botany. A collection of approximately 370 original botanical watercolours done at Amoy by Dr Bun-Ko, circa 1700, watercolours of flowers, fruit and plants on individual sheets of laid mulberry paper, each identified in Chinese script and mostly within pen and ink ruled borders, some with additional manuscript notes, the majority inscribed in a contemporary hand 'Done at Emoy in China by Doctor Bun-Ko, bro[ugh]t thence by Mr Chr[istopher] Brewster 1701' to lower margins, the largest sheet 38 x 22cm, but mostly 22 x 22cm and similar sizes James Cuninghame, a Scottish physician attached to the East India Company's 'Factory' in Amoy, commissioned a set of coloured drawings of indigenous plants from a Chinese physician, Dr Bun-Ko. Cuninghame asked Christopher Brewster to take the pictures, together with herbarium specimens, back to England, and present them to James Petiver in 1701. Petiver was a scholarly apothecary who was very actively involved with the Chelsea Physic Garden. The number of species collected by Cuninghame is estimated at nearly 600. The British Library holds 789 of the drawings in Addit. MS. 5292. Two other volumes containing 400 and 249 drawings made at Amoy form Addit. MSS. 5293, 5294. 'Cuninghame was the first European to have successfully returned botanical collections from China, and he sent to other botanists, including Dubois, Pluknet, and Petiver, many new plants including flowering and fruiting specimens of tea, for which he was repeatedly thanked in their works', (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). (approx. 370)

Dillenius (Johann Jakob). Historia Muscorum in qua circiter sexcentae species veteres et novae ad sua genera relatae describuntur et iconibus genuinis Illustrantur: cum appendice et indice synonmorum, 1st edition, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1741, 85 engraved plates, occasional minor soiling, mainly to text, handsome contemporary polished calf gilt, elephant crest to spine compartments (lower cover gilt border roll slightly rubbed in places), 4to Provenance: Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), his finely-bound copy with the elephant statant crest and upwards turned trunk, inscribed at front "Large paper, 50 copies only so printed. A.F.". Sir Andrew Fountaine, of Narford Hall, Norfolk, was knighted by William III at Hampton Court in 1699 and after travelling and collecting antiquities on the Continent, he was appointed Vice Chamberlain to Princess Caroline and tutor to Prince William, and later in 1727 appointed Warden of the Mint. His library was sold in London by Sotheby's in 1902. Henrey 639; Nissen BBI 491. One of only 50 large paper copies. "The Historia muscorum covers mosses, liverworts, lycopods, and algae, and the figures on the eighty-five plates are all drawn and engraved by the author. It is of interest to note that in this work many of the names from Linnaeus's Flora lapponica (1737) are quoted as synonyms, and it is therefore one of the earliest English botanical books in which references to Linnaeus's works are to be found." (Henrey II, page 271). (1)

Freeman (Strickland). Select Specimens of British Plants, Parts 1-2, [all published], printed by W. Bulmer, 1797[-1809], 10 fine botanical plates printed in colours and finished by hand, after drawings by Charlotte and Juliana Sabina Strickland, each with descriptive letterpress, Part 1 with signed presentation inscription from the editor to front free endpaper, 'The gift of the editor Strickland Freeman Esqre. to Miss B. Cooper, Febr[uar]y 12 1798', pages uncut, original marbled boards with printed labels to upper covers (first label browned), modern calf rebacks and corners, large folio (56 x 44cm) Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature Before 1800, 722. A very rare work, dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. The descriptions in the first number are anonymous, while those in the second number are by the naturalist George Shaw. All the plates are by the editor's sisters-in-law. (2)

Hedwig (Johann). Species Muscorum Frondosorum... Opus Posthumum editum a Friderico Schwaegrichen, 1st edition, Leipzig, 1801, 77 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional ink and pencil annotations and marginalia, some light spotting and toning to text, bookplate (relaid) and owner inscription of William Borrer, Henfield, Sussex, front hinge reinforced, modern half calf gilt, 4to Nissen BBI 830. Provenance: William Borrer (1781-1862), his copy with most likely his annotations. Borrer was an esteemed English botanist, who contributed much of his extensive knowledge of British plants to many botanical works of the period and pioneered British Lichenology, culminating in his 'Specimen of a Lichenographia Brittanica' in 1839, along with Dawson Turner. (1)