EditorialScalloped-Rim Dish with Confronted Phoenixes and Floral Stamen. China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: H. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); diam. 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.). Longquan ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration and applied decoration in biscuit reserve. O...
EditorialGiant waterlily, Victoria amazonica (Victoria water-lily, Victoria regia), torus, stamen, ovary, ovules, stigma and fruit outline. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Bo...
EditorialSaffron crocus, Crocus sativus, with flower, leaf, bulb and stamen. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanic...
EditorialBorder, Block-printed on handmade paper, Olive drab ground. Rigidly regular row of three small pink bud clusters alternating with large stylized tubrous white and gray flower with black stamen on 'collar' of black leaves. Flowers linked by scalloped li...
EditorialFrieze, Machine-printed paper, Alternating tulip and stems: two large tulips, one small tulip, one large tulip, and one small tulip. The large tulips have large leaves and stamen. Bottom and top both have scroll panels with a pink background. Bottom al...
EditorialSidewall, Keystone Wall-Paper Company, Machine-printed with mica pigments on paper support, Repeating floral pattern printed in pink and white mica, with gold mica glitter stamen, on off-white ground. Flitter, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 18951903, W...
EditorialMeadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, showing flower, leaves, bulb, roots and stamen. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," P...
Editorial1 Regimen of flowers of Rav?nala, 2 The flower before being bloomed, 3 The developed flower and 4 Stamen, 1 flowers of the tree of the travelers, 2 the flower before the flowering, 3 the blossoming flower, 4 stamen (pollen stalk), Signed: P. Sonnerat p...
EditorialScalloped-Rim Dish with Confronted Phoenixes and Floral Stamen. China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: H. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); diam. 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.). Longquan ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration and applied decoration in biscuit reserve. O...
EditorialScalloped-Rim Dish with Confronted Phoenixes and Floral Stamen. China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: H. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); diam. 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.). Longquan ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration and applied decoration in biscuit reserve. O...
EditorialScalloped-Rim Dish with Confronted Phoenixes and Floral Stamen. China. Date: 1279-1368. Dimensions: H. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); diam. 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.). Longquan ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration and applied decoration in biscuit reserve. O...
EditorialGiant waterlily, Victoria amazonica (Victoria water-lily, Victoria regia), torus, stamen, ovary, ovules, stigma and fruit outline. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Bo...
EditorialSaffron crocus, Crocus sativus, with flower, leaf, bulb and stamen. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanic...
EditorialMeadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, showing flower, leaves, bulb, roots and stamen. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," P...
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