Editorial'Hans Sloane' Plate, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, established ca. 1743/45, Georg Dionysius Ehret, German, 1708 - 1770, soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, A plate with a wavy, brown-edged rim, painted with a large branch of convolvulus/bi...
EditorialKuzu or kudzu flower and leaf, Pueraria lobata, and rukousou or cypress vine, Ipomoea quamoclit flowers. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialSweet potato, Ipomoea batatas 71, and cassava, Manihot esculenta 72, flowers and root tuber. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), ...