CIRCA 1805, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE AND BLUE ENAMEL DASH MARK, PAINTER'S IRON-RED MARK, PRESSNUMMER 10 AND INCISED // TO FOOTRIM

细节

A Berlin botanical plate
Circa 1805, underglaze blue sceptre and blue enamel dash mark, painter's iron-red mark, Pressnummer 10 and incised // to footrim
The centre painted by Johann Friedrich Schultze with a specimen plant named in black on the reverse Clethra arborea. from Madère., on a dark-brown ground within a gilt line, the well with two concentric narrow gilt bands, the pink-ground border painted in sepia with a garland of grasses between narrow gilt bands (the gilding perhaps with some re-touching)
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam.

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拍品专文

For a discussion of further plates from this service, see Ilse Baer in Das Flora Danica-Service (Copenhagen, 1999), pp. 252-260. This plate is from an unidentified botanical service produced at the same time as the famous Château de la Malmaison service supplied to the Empress Joséphine. The frequent use of the same graphic sources as the Malmaison service has led to much mis-attribution, and it is currently thought that this plate is not from the Empress Josephine service, as previously supposed.

Far right, Étienne Pierre Ventenat's botanical illustration for the same publication.