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Click here to subscribeCURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE OR FLOWER - GARDEN DISPLAY ...: 1818-19, 1825-28, 1831, 1833-38,1841-42, 1272 hand coloured plates including many folding + 1828 general index to the first 53 vols + 1951 Vol 168, 43 colour printed plates, uniform modern green cloth, spines gilt lettered and numbered, (17)
Kittlitz (Friedrich Heinrich von). Twenty-four Views of the Vegetation of the Coasts and Islands of the Pacific with Explanatory Descriptions: taken during the exploring voyage of the Russian corvette "Senjawin,” under the command of Capt. Lu?tke, in the years 1827, 1828, & 1829, 1st English edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861, half-title, 24 mounted photograph plates, 'Explanation of Frame' paper frame leaf bound-in (usually loose, "in order to be able to find the various plants alluded to in the letter-press"), occasional light toning to few margins, modern dark green half morocco, marbled paper sides, 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Arctic Bib. 8765; Gernsheim 157; Howes K-194; see Lada-Mocarski 119; Sabin 38025.The first English edition, with striking early photography, including the paper frame. Kittlitz’s original German, describing his botanical discoveries made as part of the Litke expedition, is here translated by Berthold Seemann. The plates are photographic copies of the original copperplate engravings, which Sabin describes as "some of the most interesting representations ever published of the unusual forms of exotic vegetation."
A group of British porcelain plates and dishes to include: a Minton plate, circa 1880, the rim with interlaced turquoise bandings and gilt dots; a Minton plate, circa 1880, with jewel rim, the centre decorated with fuchsias; a pair of Ridgway shell shaped dishes, circa 1825; a Minton cabinet plate and two Minton dessert plates; a low comport, probably Minton; a pair of plates, circa 1875, decorated with views of St Michael's Mount and Loch Acre; a pair of Royal Worcester cabinet plates, first period, signed E. Phillips; a pair of Derby botanical creamware plates, decorated with Common Primrose and Striped Geranium; a Royal Crown Derby plate with pink border; a cabinet plate decorated with a view of Jedburgh Abbey; a Royal Worcester cabinet plate decorated with a robin; a pair of Coalport plates decorated with floral sprigs; a Spode quatrefoil dish; and a modern Spode plate decorated with an exotic bird; together with two Vienna style cabinet plates; and a Nymphenburg reticulated plate (lot)A couple of deep scratches to one Royal Worcester cabinet plate. Drilled holes to underside of two blue ground Minton plates and one Vienna style cabinet plate. Another Vienna cabinet plate with beehive mark having drilled holes to underside with chips around holes and also having chips to underside rim, scratches to top and rubbing to gilt.The pair of Derby creamware plates with heavy crazing and scratches to underside. The Royal Worcester 'robin' plate with heavy crazing. Vienna style plate with maiden and cherubs with heavy rubbing to gilt and minor nibbles to rim. Otherwise in good condition with only minor wear to underside rims, minor scratches and rubbing to gilt highlights.
An Edwardian Arts & Crafts needlework picture, bearing the cardinal virtues personified, surrounded by botanical and zoological motifs, beneath the legend 'This is for to lette you see al this pictyour was wrought by mee, I sette it cleer, 1904 ye date of ye yeer', worked in silk long-and-short stitch over a linen ground, 27 x 6cms, framed.
A Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica deep dish, c.1956 and a Copenhagen coffee cup, 19th century, the dish painted with a named botanical specimen ’Rosa Villosa Horn’, printed marks, 25cm diameter, the coffee cup painted in Meissen style with figures in a harbour, underglaze blue three waves mark, 6.5cm high (2)***CONDITION REPORT***The dish is in excellent condition with no restoration, chips or cracks and the cup has typical minor glaze imperfections otherwise in good condition.PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
A rare Rockingham botanical specimen part breakfast service, griffin statant mark, c.1826, with some matching pieces, c.1830-5, each piece painted with titled botanical specimens, with gilded chain-link borders, each base inscribed in iron red with the specimens title some pieces with pattern number 580, the majority of saucers and plates with iron red griffin statant Rockingham mark indicating most of the service was supplied in late 1826. Together with a different pattern Rockingham pink rose and insect painted soup dish with standard iron red mark and a botanical specimen jug with puce mark. See Gorringes online condition report for a full listing of the service.cf. Alwyn and Angela Cox, Rockingham 1745–1842, colour plate 47 for a variation on this pattern. This service is similar to the Royal botanical plants and flies service delivered to Wentworth house in 1829 but with the absence of insects on the plants. According to Castle Howard records a breakfast service of pattern 580 was delivered to the Earl of Carlisle in November 1829, from the Bramelds’ York shop and is described as Royal Breakfasts.***CONDITION REPORT***The botanical breakfast service in pattern 580 all with some fine crazing to the glaze, comprising - three oblong serving dishes with puce marks, two cracked across the middle one of those with some flaking to the enamels and the third heavily stained.A 17.5cm slops bowl, badly cracked.A milk jug and cover with a crack to the upper border by the spout and the bayonet fitting cover stuck fast.twelve extra large 12cm diameter breakfast cups, four ring well, but eight with some staining and occasional minor cracks.There are eleven 18cm diameter matching saucers, eight ring well, three cracked. All with iron red Rockingham marks.Ten 24cm diameter plates each with a Rockingham griffin statant iron red mark, three badly cracked, the rest ring true with occasional scratching to the glaze. Two additional 23.5cm plates with Rockingham puce marks in good condition.A pair of muffin dishes and covers, the dish base is with Rockingham griffin statant iron red marks, good condition.Five coffee cups, two ring through three with cracks and staining.Eleven matching 15cm diameter saucers, nine ring true, two cracked all with Rockingham iron read Griffin statant mark.The additional jug in a different pattern has some staining and crazing to the glaze a large chip to the edge by the handle and there’s a Rockingham puce mark.The rose and butterfly painted soup bowl has a large discoloured area of restoration to one side and there is a standard Rockingham iron red markPLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail.
A COLLECTION OF ASSORTED MINIATURE TEAWARES, comprising a Wedgwood blue Jasper Ware coffee pot, a Coalport red 'Indian Tree' pattern teapot, bell and egg form pot, a Coalport 'Burbeck Rose' jug and covered sugar bowl, a Wedgwood 'Kutani Crane' pattern cup and saucer, a Coalport cup and saucer decorated with pink roses, a Shelley cup and saucer decorated with blue flowers, pattern No. 13864, a Spode cup and saucer to commemorate the Wedding of HRH Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, a Coalport blue and white 'Willow' pattern cup and saucer, a Spode Billingsley Rose Spray pattern cup and saucer, two Spode miniature plates from the Spode Blue Room Collection, 'Rome' and 'Botanical', a Spode 'Plates of the World's Great Porcelain Houses' limited edition plate, eight floral patterned miniature pieces of Spode (Qty) (Condition report: good, slight scratches to gilding)
Egypt.- Levant.- Pococke (Richard) A Description of the East and Some other Countries, 3 parts in 2 vol., first edition, engraved vignettes to titles, 178 engraved maps, planes and plates (some folding; of which 2 torn, 1 with portion detached but preserved loose), including 12 botanical plates by G.D. Ehret, vol. 2 part I with engraved dedication page, bookplates, light browning and some spotting, twentieth century half calf with morocco labels to spine, a little scuffing, uncut, [Atabey 965; Blackmer 1323; Hilmy II, p.124; Weber II, 513], folio, for the author by W. Bowyer, 1743-45⁂ Vol. 1 Egypt; Vol. 2 Part I Palestine or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and Candia; Vol. 2 Part II Islands of Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece and some other parts of Europe.
Three 19th Century Minton cabinet plates comprising two with botanical studies, the first decorated with a moth on a pink flower, the second a butterfly on a yellow flower, both within a turquoise border with a gilt foliate pattern, impressed mark, diameter 23.5cm, the third with a hand painted castle by the water's edge, impressed mark, diameter 23cm. (3)
A 19th Century Flight Barr and Barr Worcester cabinet plate decorated with a hand painted botanical study titled Iris Germanica German Flag, the centre with a purple flower surrounded by a green border and gilt pie crust edge, printed mark alongside hand painted title, diameter 25cm, together with a 19th Century Worcester frilled edged plate decorated in the Blind Earl pattern, impressed mark, diameter 20cm, restored. (2)
A set of twenty-nine Nymphenburg plates, circa 1765Each with a gilt-edged, moulded rim, painted with a flower bouquet (the 'Nymphenburg bouquet') in the centre and scattered blooms and flowers around the rim; together with a Nymphenburg soup plate, circa 1757, painted probably by Andreas Oettner with a flower spray ('Viennese style') in the centre and scattered flowers around the puce-edged rim; and a Nymphenburg square dish, circa 1765, painted with a flower spray in the centre and further scattered flowers within a gilt scrollwork and blue line border around the rim, the plates: 25.5cm diam.; the soup plate: 26cm diam.; the square dish: 24cm across, impressed shield marks, numerals and letters. three plates and the square dish with hexagram mark in underglaze-blue (some wear to gilt rims, a few chips to footrims, one corner of square dish restuck) (31)Footnotes:Provenance:Catalina von Pannwitz Collection, 'De Hartekamp', Heemstede, The NetherlandsThe soup plate with purple-edged rim belongs to a service decorated with flowers in the botanical style of the Du Paquier (Vienna) manufactory in the 1730s, the decoration of which has been attributed to Andreas Oettner (A. Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan Sammlung Bäuml (1997), nos. 269-272. Other pieces from the service with the gilt scrollwork and blue line borders to the rim are illustrated by Ziffer, op. cit., nos. 369-372.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An extensive Royal Copenhagen Flora Danica table service, 20th centuryEach finely painted with botanical specimen, the moulded rims with gilt beaded borders, titled in black on reverse, comprising:A large oval soup tureen, cover and stand (the stand: 40cm across)A circular soup tureen, cover and stand (the stand: 33.5cm diam.)A large oval dish with a domed cover (39cm across)An oval bottle cooler (16.7cm high; 27cm across handles)Two footed bowls (20.5cm diam., 14cm high)An oval pierced basket with branch handles (26cm across handles)A Saucière on a fixed stand (22cm across stand)A round deep saucepan and cover with wooden handle (23.5cm diam.)Two large circular dishes (35.7cm diam.)A circular dish (33.2cm diam.)A large oval dish (40cm across)Two medium oval dishes (35.8cm across)A shaped rectangular dish (29.7cm across)Two shaped square dishes (24cm across)Two triangular shallow dishes (26.5cm across)Four oval dishes with branch handles to one side (three 24cm across and one 22cm across)Two boat-shaped dishes with handles (18cm across)Two medium oval shallow dishes (27.5cm across)Two small oval shallow dishes (24.5cm across)One small flat oval dish (24.7cm across)One large deep circular bowl (24cm diam.; 10cm high)Two shaped square bowls (22.5cm across)Two circular shallow bowls (20.8cm diam.)Forty-one large circular plates (25.7cm diam.)Thirty-two medium plates (22.5cm diam.)Thirty-six small plates (19.5cm diam.)Eight soup plates (22.4cm diam.)Eight large lobed plates with pierced rims (27cm across)Eight lobed and pierced soup plates (24.5cm across)Nine small circular plates (17cm diam.)Eight small circular plates (14.5cm diam.)Eight very small circular salts/plates (7.7cm)Eight small circular shallow dishes (14.5cm diam.)Six oval salts (10.5cm across)Eight egg cups (6cm high)One triangular box, cover and stand (ca. 11cm across)Twenty-two two-handled bowls and saucers (17cm across handles)Eighteen covered cups and saucersOne small round two-handled pot and cover with branch handles (11cm across handles)A teapot and cover (15cm high)An oval sugar bowl and cover (15.5cm high)Eight teacups and saucersEight small cups and saucersEight large cups and saucersEight coffee cans and saucer wave marks in underglaze-blue, factory marks stencilled in green, various numerals and letters in green (some very minor damage) (393)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Botanisches BlattZweig, Blüte und Frucht der Eberesche (Sorbus aucuparia ?) mit Schmetterling und dessen Raupe. Teilkolorierte Lithografie, 1848. Tafel 31 aus: Buch der Welt, ein Inbegriff des Wissenswürdigsten und Unterhaltendsten aus den Gebieten der Naturgeschichte, Naturlehre, Länder- und Völkerkunde, Weltgeschichte, Götterlehre etc. ; Mit vielen colorirten und schwarzen Abbildungen, Stuttgart (Carl Hoffmann) 1842-1872. Im Passepartout hinter Glas gerahmt. 22 x 17 cm (BA), 37,5 x 31 cm (Ra). Dezent fleckig. Botanical plate on sorbus aucuparia (?) with blossom, fruits and butterfly. Coloured lithograph, 1848. Plate 31 from the German natural history periodical: Buch der Welt. Framed behind glass. Decent spots.
Harold Knight (1874-1961)Portrait of Mary Monteath, 1933signed (lower left), titled and dated (upper)oil on canvas49 x 39cm. Provenance:Mary Lindsay (née Eady), Lady Monteath (1905-1994) was the wife of Sir David Taylor Monteath (1887-1961). David Monteath was a British civil servant, working at the India Office in London, who was the last Permanent Under Secretary of State for India and Burma. Mary Monteath was the niece of Harold Knight. Knight painted the current work as a wedding present in 1933. In Oxford University botanical gardens, beside the river Cherwell, there is a bench with a faded plaque, on it inscribed: "In memory of Jane Tomkinson and Mary Monteath". This bench is an important landmark as it plays a crucial part in Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials. In the years since the bench appeared in the trilogy's final novel, The Amber Spyglass, it has grown into the rich literary fabric of Oxford and many tourists and fans visit the site. The frame is contemporary to the picture. The frame has some knocks, scuffs and scratches. Signs of display, wear and use. Slight crazing to the paint surface in places, but otherwise seems ok. Please note we have not removed the picture from the frame to examine.
Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (E. Chas.) The Burren, roy 8vo Boethuis Press 1991. First Edn., cold. plts., pict. d.w.; Nelson (E. Chas.) A Heritage of Beauty - The Garden Plants of Ireland, folio Dublin 2000; Butler (Patricia) Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters, folio Lond. 2000; Malins (Ed.) & Knight of Glin, Lost Demesnes - Irish Landscape Gardening, 1660-1845, folio Lond. 1976; Malins (Ed.) & Bowe (Patrick) Irish Gardens and Demesnes from 1830, folio Lond. 1980. All First Edn., illus., & orig. d.w.'s. V. good. (5)
Botanical Interest: Trees and flowers of the Lefroy Family, on the Lefroy Estates: The Shorthand Notebook. Notes on Trees, with tipped-in printed notes, L.M. [Langlois Massey] Lefroy, 1905. 6½" x 4”. Trees at The Lodge, Boxed [Essex]. 1 p. Trees at Carrigglas 1906. 18 pp, the rest blank. Dimensions of trees to 1923, + news cuttings. Also 3 watercolours: “Drawings by Mrs M. Lefroy of Granny’s Violets.” As an Album, w.a.f. (1)
Ruskin (John 1819-1900). A very good autograph letter signed to ‘Dear Mrs. Marshall’, on his headed paper, from Brantwood, Coniston, dated 2nd March [18]73, 4 pp (single folded sheet), in his small tidy hand, with a typed transcript. ‘This is the first mild day of March .. the air was infinitely sweet this afternoon by the shore - Snow all gone. Just before it fell, I took a walk to the top of the rocks on the west of your tarn .. I maintain this view from your crags to be the finest mountain panorama in the lakes .. I am going to Oxford for three weeks only, to give three lectures on Robin, Swallow and Chough as subjects of fine art .. Your carefully directed parcel of books came just when and where it ought ..’ A long, warm, chatty letter to a neighbour, showing his interest in and response to his natural environment, signed ‘faithfully & gratefully yours’. The recipient, Mrs. [Mary] Marshall, nee Mary Spring Rice, was a maid of honour to Queen Victoria; her father was then Chancellor of the Exchequer. With this item is offered a framed watercolour drawing by Ruskin of a botanical specimen, signed indistinctly lower right, circa 7 ins x 5 ins, with label to rear inscribed ‘Painted by John Ruskin for Nelly O’Brien when she was a child & was his pupil, & given by Margaret O’Brien to Edith Wilkinson Xmas 1925. After my death I wish it to be given to Elinor O’Brien.’ The O’Briens mentioned are from the Cahirmoyle family (of William Smith O’Brien). The ancestry is complicated, but Nelly O’Brien was a niece of Charlotte Grace O’Brien, daughter of WSOB. Margaret O’Brien was Nelly’s half-sister. Mary Spring Rice (daughter of Baron Monteagle) married James Garth Marshall of Yorkshire. Other Marshall family correspondence with Ruskin,Tennyson and others is apparently in Leeds University library. Ruskin was a writer, artist and social reformer, one of the most influential cultural figures of the Victorian age, particularly in relation to architecture. (2)
Original Botanical Drawings Kinnaird (Elizabeth) artist Botanical Drawings North Antrim and Donegal, portfolio, 28 original watercolour specimens depicting Orchids, Primrose, Hawthorn, Fushia and other Wild Flowers, loose, house in a custom-made, hf. calf marble board presentation box with mor. label. (1) Provenance: Given by the Artist to E.D. Popper, (Linen and Damask designer) Malone Road, Belfast.
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