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A Derby botanical dessert service, circa 1795Finely painted with named botanical specimens, many taken from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, with formal gilt foliate borders and gilt-line rims, comprising a sauce tureen, cover and stand, a lozenge-shaped footed centrepiece, three shell-shaped dishes, three lozenge-shaped dishes, a heart-shaped dish and twelve plates, centrepiece 30.8cm wide, crown, crossed batons and D marks and pattern number 115 in blue, Latin and English titles in blue script (23)Footnotes:Most of the specimens appearing on the service are taken from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published in volumes from 1787. The specimens and their source prints where known are as follows:Tureen, cover and stand. 'Crepis Barbata. Bearded Crepis, or Purple-Eyed Succory-Hawkweed', Vol.1, pl.35, published 1786. 'Lathyrus Tuberosus. Tuberous Lathyrus', Vol.4, pl.111, published 1 August 1790. 'Dianthus Caryophyllus, Scarlet Bizarre Carnation. Franklin's Tartar', Vol.2, pl.39, published 1788. 'Althaea. Marsh Mallow', source unknown.Centrepiece. 'Rhododendron Ponticum. Violet Colour'd Rose Bay', source unknown.Shell-shaped dishes. 'Lathyrus Sativus. Blue-Flower'd Lathyrus, or Chichling-Vetch', Vol.4, pl.115, published 1 December 1790. 'Hypericum Calycinum. Large Flower'd St. John's Wort', Vol.5, pl.146, published 1 March 1791. 'Dianthus. Piquette Carnation', source unknown.Lozenge-shaped dishes. 'Golden Flower'd Henbane', John Edwards, A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature, pl.42, published 1 January 1791. 'Borage', ibid., pl.57, published 4 June 1793. 'Narcissus of the Sun', source unknown. Heart-shaped dish. 'Scotch Lilac', John Edwards, A Collection of Flowers Drawn from Nature, pl.76, published 4 August 1795.Plates. 'Helleborus Hyemalis. Winter Hellebore, or Acconite', Vol.1, pl.3, published 1786. 'Narcissus Minor. Least Daffodil', Vol.1, pl.3, published 1786. 'Cactus flagelliformis. Creeping Cactus', Vol.1, pl.17, published 1786. 'Gentiana Acaulis. Large-Flower'd Gentian, or Hentianella', Vol.2, pl.52, published 1788. 'Iris Spuria. Spurious Iris', Vol.2, pl.58, published 1788. 'Gorteria Rigens. Rigid-Leaved Gorteria', Vol.3, pl.90, published 1 March 1789. 'Candy Tuft', Vol. 3., pl.106, published 1 March 1789. 'Amaryllis Vittata. Superb Amaryllis', Vol.4, pl.129, published 1 August 1790. 'Cheiranthus Maritimus. Mediterranean Stock', Vol.5, pl.166, published 1 March 1791. 'Coronilla Varia. Purple Coronilla', Vol.8, pl.258, published 1 March 1794. 'Solarum dulcamaria [sic]. Wood Night Shade', source unknown. 'Pancies [sic] or Hearts Ease', source unknown.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A pair of Derby botanical plates by William 'Quaker' Pegg, circa 1813-15One painted with 'Superb Amaryllis', the other with 'Azure Convolvulus', within gilded classical borders, 22.2cm diam, crown, crossed batons and D marks in red, titles in red script (2)Footnotes:A similar pair was sold by Bonhams on 14 November 2018, lot 413 and another is illustrated by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain (2002), p.92, col. pl.51For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Group of mostly 19th century English School watercolours to include: Margaret Wedderburn, five rural views, Lucy Griffith, three Welsh landscapes, figure fishing on a river, botanical study, two mid-19th century church drawings, birds on a branch signed F.B.B, together with two bird studies signed Brant, each in glazed gilt frame (15)
A 28 piece 19th Century English pink and white ground Botanical Dessert Service, probably Spode, each piece decorated with different colourful flowers comprising a large boat shaped stemmed comport 15" (38cms), three square serving dishes 9 1/2" (24cms) two shell shaped dishes 10" (25.5cms) four oval boat shaped dishes 11 1/4" (29cms) and 18 round plates 9 1/2" (24cms), all with gadroon edges. (28)
Postcards. Collection in large, well-filled early-20th century album, plus loose. UK topographical/resorts, royal portraits, glamour, USA & Japan scenes, general greetings, botanical, theatre, small range of real photographic Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire. Together with two Dean's Rag Books: Animals and ABC. The whole in one box
A box of miscellaneous hardback books, mainly being botanical interest, to include Maggie Campbell Culver - The Origin of Plants, David Stewart - Gardening with Antique Plants, Christopher Lloyd - Adventurous Gardeners etc; together with two other boxes of books to include ornithological examples
Novel set in British India.- Oman (C[harles] P[hilip] A[ustin]) Eastwards, or Realities of Indian Life, first edition, presentation copy from the author to his mother-in-law, some foxing to title, last few text ff. and endpapers, contemporary green panelled morocco, richly gilt, spine in compartments, spine faded to brown, a few scuff marks, rubbed, g.e., 8vo, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1864.⁂ An excellent presentation copy of this atmospheric novel following the Templemore family from England to Bengal in the final days of East India Company rule, when 'the first faint mutterings of the storm which was to dash the crazy fabric of British power' were stirring. It is rich in details of Anglo-Indian life, include hunting alligators and boar, visits to the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, 'a picnic in the Himalayahs' and 'Indian Jugglers'. A Calcutta-born Indigo planter who spent most of his adult life in the Himalayan foothills, Oman is known to have contributed anonymously to All the year round, edited by Charles Dickens, but is perhaps better known as the father of the historian Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman.
Gibraltar and Morocco.- Burgess (E., active 1870s) Album of 50 original watercolours and drawings, including single and double-page views of the Straits of Gibraltar and Tangier, and with others of scenes in Morocco and botanical studies, pencil, watercolours, some heightened with white, many inscribed with locations and dates, various papers, owners inscription to inside upper cover 'E Burgess. Feb 1878/ Tangier/ Morocco', some leaves loose, occasional spotting and surface dirt, original half calf green boards, lacking backstrip, very scuffed and worn, oblong 8vo, 1878.
Company School, Patna, mid-19th Century/An Album of approximately 75 Anglo Colonial watercolours to include botanical, architectural, ornithological and trades/Note: Pasted in note to flyleaf reads 'An old man with his son a most excellent painter, his pieces about 12 Rupees one dozen on ? but most excellently done, the best artist at Patna. Done for Capt. Edward Inge, 4th Light Dragoons'/see illustration
Curtis (William) The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, volumes 1-108, but lacking volumes 67-68, first edition, 6489 hand-coloured plates, including 633 folding, 4 uncoloured, lacks plates 3640 and 3795-3963, but with a duplicate of plate 3707, volume 58 with a presentation inscription, 'To Chas. Fraser Esq., from the Author, 1832', some spotting and light browning, volume 42 lacks title and index leaves, volumes 1-70 in contemporary green half morocco, the remainder in publisher's original cloth gilt, volume 63 with lower board detached, 8vo, London: W. Curtis, later L. Reeve & Co., 1787-1876/see illustration
Johannes W Weinman (German, 1683-1741)A pair of Botanical Studies of Acorns and Oak Leaves, circa 1735watercolour34 x 22cm (2)Condition report: Under glass and may be stuck down. The cream parts of the watercolour are a little discoloured and the text in ink at the bottom has faded a little. The paper on both watercolours is crinkled under the glass.
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