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Piero Fornasetti Recipe Plate, Vero-Pig Piccadilly, Made for Fleming Joffe
By Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti recipe plate,
Vero-Pig piccadilly,
Made for Fleming Joffe,
Silkscreen and transfer,
Early 1960s.
This rare Piero Forna...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Bristol Delftware Unusual Star Plate
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Bristol delftware plate has a charming whimsical design with sponged manganese and a central star design containing a chinoiserie fence.
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Delft, Faience
French Porcelain Apothecary Jars
By Old Paris
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of ten French Porcelain apothecary jars,
19th century.
The set consists of five smaller cover jars and five larger covered jars. Each ...
Category
Antique 19th Century French Charles X Jars
Materials
Porcelain
$3,000 / set
Piero Fornasetti Oval Dish with Gilt Pipe and Tobacco Motif
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Piero Fornasetti Pip motif oval dish is painted on a dark blue ground with a gilt design of two pipes entwined with tobacco leaves and tied together with a central ribbon.
Ref...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Ceramic
Dutch Delft Oval Blue
White Architectural Plaque, Three Porcelain Ash-Barrel
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft Oval Blue & White Plaque,
Pieter Gerritsz Kam, (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) factory), or his widow Maria van der Kloot,
Circa 1700-1710
...
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Dutch Queen Anne Delft and Faience
Materials
Delft, Faience
Dutch Delft Set of Six Dinner Plates with Plants and Ribbon
By Delft
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch delft set of six dinner plates with plants and ribbon
The charming set of six Dutch delft plates are painted with scattered green and orange plant...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Delft, Pottery
Proskau Faience Tromp L
oeil Jug in the Form of a Parrot, circa 1770
By Proskau
Located in Downingtown, PA
Proskau Faience Jug in the form of a Parrot,
circa 1770.
The tromp l"oeil tin-glazed earthenware jug is in the form of a parrot with a removable head...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Georgian Pottery
Materials
Faience
Terracotta Portrait Plaque of a Nobleman with Order of the Garter
Located in Downingtown, PA
Continental Terracotta Plaque,
Early 19th Century
The large painted plaque depicts a view of the left side torso of a Continental Nobleman wearing the British Order of the Garter...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century, Antique Horse Prints by Baron D
Eisenberg- A Set of Four
By Eisenberg
Located in Downingtown, PA
Hand colored prints of horses from "L'art de monter a cheval: ou description du manége moderne, dans sa perfection" by Baron D'Eisenberg, Published in 1747.
Each print is mounted in a cherrywood parcel-gilt frame, with a glazed reverse depicting the corresponding text sheet and can be sold as pairs.
The following subjects are depicted:
1. L'Andaloux, Le Cheval d'Espagne, Plate I;
2. Le Barbe, Le Cheval Barbe, Plate II,
3. L'Allemand, Le Cheval d'Allemagne, Plate III;
4. L'Arabe, Le Cheval Arabe...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century German Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
Faience Plaque in the Form of a Horse, circa 1840
By Rörstrand
Located in Downingtown, PA
Continental faience plaque in the form of a horse,
circa 1840,
Probably Rorstrand.
The plaque is amusingly decorated with a galloping gray horse wi...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Swedish Early Victorian Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astronomici Plate, #4 in Series
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Astronomici means Astronomics. This is a rare pattern in black and white with gold highlights.
Mark: A moon and sun within a circle with smiling faces with scattered stars and th...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Framed Etching of a Massive Urn by Piranesi, Plate 549
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francesco Piranesi
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large framed etching of a massive urn
Francesco Piranesi in the style of his father, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, plate 549 #43,
signed lower left on plate Cavalier Piranesi Delin, ed...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
Wedgwood Majolica Shell-Form Spoon Warmer, Circa 1872
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Majolica shell-form spoon warmer,
circa 1872.
The warmer is naturalistically modeled as a large shell in sky blue and amaranth.
Marks: Script in red M2954 and M below also...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Arts and Crafts Ceramics
Materials
Majolica
British Sailor
s Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship,
The sailor's woolwork or woolie depicts a starboard view of a Second-Rate Royal Navy Ship with three masts. T...
Category
Antique 1870s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astrolabe Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti astrolabe plate,
Numbered #7 in Series
1960s-mid 1970s.
The Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate depicts an astrolabe in a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Large Pearlware Blue Printed Tray with The Angry Lion Pattern
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pearlware pottery blue printed tray,
The Angry Lion Pattern,
Circa 1815-20
The Unusual English pottery footed tray is pearlware and is printed wi...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Georgian Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
George Brookshaw Print of Pears from Pomona Britannica, Dated 1807
By George Brookshaw
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Brookshaw Print of Pears
from Natural History Art, Botanical, Fruit, Brookshaw, Pomona Britannica,
Plate LXXXV,
Dated 1807
The publ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
George Brookshaw Print of Two Varieties of Raspberries, One Yellow and One Red
By George Brookshaw
Located in Downingtown, PA
George Brookshaw print of two varieties of raspberries, one yellow and one red.
Plate IV,
from Natural History Art, Botanical, Fruit, Brookshaw, Po...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
Bristol Delftware Set of Six Polychrome Chinoiserie Scalloped Plates, 1760
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wonderful set of six Bristol delftware polychrome Chinoiserie scalloped plates,
Redbank Back Factory,
Circa 1760
The plates have a most appealing, br...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Rococo Dinner Plates
Materials
Delft
English Creamware Whieldon-type Gray Tortoiseshell Plate
By Thomas Whieldon Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Creamware Whieldon-type Gray Tortoiseshell Plate,
Circa 1765-75
This color is unsual. The plates are more a tortoise-shell coloration.
The ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Recipe Plate, Beautiful Soup, Made for Fleming Joffe
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Fleming Joffe Porcelain recipe plate,
Beautiful Soup,
1960s.
This rare Piero Fornasetti porcelain plate is from a series of fourteen made for the Fleming Joffe company in New York City. It depicts an improbable and amusing recipe with an image of a toad.
Diameter: 10 1/4 inches x 1 inch high.
The Fleming Joffe company was a small leather goods...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Shell-Edged Large Prattware Oval Dish Painted with an Urn of Flowers
Located in Downingtown, PA
Shell-edge prattware oval dish painted with an urn of flowers,
1800-1820
The large oval deep dish has a shaped border in blue with a painted blue shell-edge design. The central well is painted with a large yellow urn...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Platters and Serveware
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
Georgian Blue Glass Finger Bowls- a Set of Six
Located in Downingtown, PA
Great Color!
Set of six late Georgian blue glass finger bowls,
circa 1830-1830,
A set of blue lead glass finger bowls from the Regency period...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Glass
Materials
Glass
Staffordshire Pearlware Pottery Surface Agate Teapot with Acorn Finial
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Staffordshire Pearlware Teapot and Cover with Inlaid Agate Surface and Acorn Finial,
Attributed to the Ralph Wedgwood,
circa 1795.
The squat oval p...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Georgian Pottery
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
Chinese Watercolors of Exotic Fruit on Pith Paper- A Set of Eight
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Chine trade watercolors are of fine quality and depict various exotic fruits including pineapples, lychees, finger citrus and orange amongst others. Now framed with a thin gilt f...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings
Materials
Paper
Chinese Export Porcelain Taoist Immortal Figures, Eight Immortals and the Leader
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large English Pearlware Oval Dish with Blue and White Chinoiserie and Shell Edge
This striking large oval dish, dating from circa 1790, is an excellent example of late 18th-century ...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Tall Ship Ceramic Coasters with Box, Velieri Pattern
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Piero Fornasetti Tall Ship Ceramic Coasters with Original Box,
Velieri Pattern,
1950s-1960s.
The complete set of eight Piero Fornasetti coasters each depict Spanish Galleons...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Ceramic
18th-century Staffordshire Creamware Cauliflower Creamer
By William Greatbatch
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th-century Staffordshire Creamware Cauliflower Creamer Jug,
Probably by William Greatbach/ Josiah Wedgwood
Lead-glazed earthenware,
Circa 1765
The creamware creamer jug has a bal...
Category
Antique 1760s English Georgian Tableware
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Sailor
s Woolwork of HMS Reindeer Made by Henry Payn Hopper
Located in Downingtown, PA
Sailor's Woolwork of HMS Reindeer of a Large Size,
Made by Henry Payn Hopper,
Circa 1865-70
The large woolie depicts a starboard side view of the HMS Reindeer under steam and sail. ...
Category
Antique 1860s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
British Sailor
s Woolwork of Merchant Ship Under Full Sail
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Merchant Ship Under Full Sail,
Circa 1875
The British sailor's woolie depicts a port side view of a large three-masted ship flying the Red Ensign on a f...
Category
Antique 1870s Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
British Sailor
s Woolwork of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship,
Circa 1875
The charming simple sailor's woolie depicts a starboard side view of a Royal Navy second rate battleship...
Category
Antique 1870s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
British Sailor
s Woolwork Picture of Five Ships Off a Coastline
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork Picture of Five Ships offshore,
Circa 1875
The large sailor's woolwork or sailor's woolie depicts five different ships. The largest ship is in the center ...
Category
Antique 1870s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
Saltglaze Teapot with portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia and the Prussia
Located in Downingtown, PA
Saltglaze Teapot with portrait of Frederick the Great of Prussia and the Prussian Eagle,
Circa 1760
The ermine ground teapot has an enamelled portra...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English George II Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Michael Graves Little Dripper Porcelain Filter Drip Coffeemaker
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in Downingtown, PA
Little Dripper Porcelain Filter Drip Coffeemaker,
Designed by Michael Graves,
Manufactured by Swid Powell,
Dated 1987.
The complete set, with original instruction booklet, included ...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Johann Seligmann Bird Print, Le Colibri rouge
Le petit Colibri brun, Tab LXIII
By Johann Michael Seligmann
Located in Downingtown, PA
Johann Seligmann Bird Print,
Le Colibri rouge & Le petit Colibri brun,
Tab LXIII
Circa 1770
The Johann Seligmann engravings of two birds on a branch- Le Colibri rouge & Le petit Co...
Category
Antique 1770s German Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
Johann Seligmann Bird Print of Le Pivert Mouchese des Indes, Tab LXXVII
By Johann Michael Seligmann
Located in Downingtown, PA
Johann Seligmann Bird Print,
Le Pivert Mouchese des Indes,
Tab LXXVII,
Circa 1770
The Johann Seligmann engravings of Le Pivert Mouchese des IndesTax LXXXVII is mounted in a decoupa...
Category
Antique 1770s German Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
MCM Stig Lindberg Stoneware Conical Vase, Domino Series, Black/White, 1954
By Stig Lindberg
Located in Downingtown, PA
Stig Lindberg stoneware conical vase- Domino Series,
Black/White,
Gustavsberg,
1954
The conical vase with a linear relief pattern and a black gloss...
Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Blue and White Porcelain After Maria Sybille Merian
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of Chinese Export 'Pronk' Blue and White Plates after Maria Sibylla Merian
For the Dutch Market, Qianlong Period,
Circa 1740-1745
This rare and historically significant pair o...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
$3,200 Sale Price / set
60% Off
Wedgwood Yellow Pottery Nautilus Sea Shell Sauce Tureen, Cover
Stand
By Wedgwood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Nautilus sauce Tureen, cover & stand with Rare Yellow Color,
Circa 1790
The Wedgwood pearlware pottery sauce tureen, cover & stand is paint...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English George III Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
First Period Worcester Pair of Porcelain Basket Weave Leaf Dishes
By 1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall
Located in Downingtown, PA
First Period Worcester pair of porcelain basket weave leaf dishes,
circa 1758-1760.
The First Period Worcester porcelain dishes with moulde...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century English Georgian Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Plate, Sezioni Di Frutta, #6
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Pottery Plate, Sezioni Di Frutta, #6
1960s.
The stunning Piero Fornasetti Pottery Plate depicts a cut red pepper from the Sezioni Di Frutta...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Pottery
English Pottery Game Tureen, 19th Century
Located in Downingtown, PA
English pottery game tureen,
19th century
The oval game tureen and cover has painted molded mother bird and chick to the center of each side and large molded tulips to each side. Scattered across the body and cover are other molded flowers and leaves naturalistically.
Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches height x 11 1/4 inches width x 8 3/4 inches
Game pie dishes became popular in the 1800s during Napoleon's blockade of British ports. Flour became scarce, game pie dishes resembling pie crust came into their own and have remained popular ever since. William Jesse in his 1844 biography of Beau Brummel...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Serving Pieces
Materials
Pottery
Newcastle Prattware Pottery Model of a Horse, St. Anthony Pottery, Newcastle
By Saint Anthony Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
Newcastle Prattware Pottery model of a horse,
St. Anthony Pottery, Newcastle upon Tyne,
circa 1800-1820.
The fun, folky horse has a cropped tail s...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Animal Sculptures
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Ceramic Plates, Set of Six
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Plates, set of six
The plates each depict a different selection of stringed instruments including gu...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Silk and Wool Picture of Mother and Her Children, after John Hoppner RA
By Sir John Hoppner
Located in Downingtown, PA
Superb large English silk and wool portrait,
A Mother and Her Four Children,
after John Hoppner R.A.,
circa 1810-20,
Within gilt frame.
Silk over linen fabric ground, silk floss, worsted wool yarn, Merino wool yarn and oil paint.
A remarkable silk picture with painted sky background and each figure with a painted face and hands with the remaining portions of the picture finished in wool. The design comes from a mezzotint after John Hoppner made in the 1790s. John Hoppner specialized in painting mothers and children.
The picture depicts a large standing female figure dressed in a white dress and wearing a turban. She stands by two classical columns with her four children in front of her.
The youngest child is sitting on the ground playing with her red shoe in her hands with a tambourine by her side. Her elder sister stands behind her. Both girls are dressed in Empire-style muslin dresses...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Silk
1950
s Vintage Libbey Bar Glasses, Curio Line Designed by Freda Diamond
By Libbey Glass Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Libbey bar glasses, (23 pieces)
Curio Line designed by Freda Diamond,
Early 1950s.
The charming set of twenty three pieces of barware each d...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Glass
English Pottery Spatterware Plates- A Set of Four
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Pottery Green Sponged Spatterware Set of Four Plates,
1st Half of 19th Century
The Sponged Spatterware plates are attractively decorated with a green seaweed border with a b...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Folk Art Dinner Plates
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Mason
s Ironstone Chinoiserie Mazarine Large Blue Vase
By Mason
s Ironstone
Located in Downingtown, PA
Large Mason's Ironstone Large Chinoiserie Vase,
Circa 1835-40.
Great as a lamp base or for flowers-the stricking mazarine blue Mason's Ironston...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English William IV Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Ironstone
Faience Tromp L
oeil Jug in the Form of a Parrot, Proskau Poland
By Proskau
Located in Downingtown, PA
Proskau Faience Tompe L'oeil Jug in the form of a Parrot,
Circa 1770.
The European tin-glazed earthenware tromp l'oeil jug is in the form of a parrot with a removable head forming...
Category
Antique 1770s Georgian Delft and Faience
Materials
Faience
Italian-Market Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Dish, Marchesi di Sorbello Arms
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Coat-of-Arms on this Chinese Export armorial are for the Marchesi di Sorbello from a service ordered by Uguccione III Bourbon del Monte, 12th Marquis Regent of Sorbello (1737-1816).
He was the son of Guiseppe I (1690-1747) a successful and important diplomat for the King of Sardinia...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Regency Period Spode Neo-classical Greek Pattern Blue Dessert Dishes- a Pair
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Regency Spode neo-Classical Greek pattern blue rectangular dessert dishes,
Four figures in battle,
Early 19th century
The Spode Greek pattern pott...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
Puce-Colored Creamware Shell-Edge Neale and Co Set of Ten Plates
By Neale
Co.
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Neale & Co. puce-colored shell-edge plates are each decorated in a purple transfer with figures in the foreground amongst a landscape of Classic ruins. The rims, also with a feathered puce (purple) border, are highlighted with unusually strong remnants of the original gilding. Each is impressed with the Neale & Co. mark on the reverse.
Marks: The impressed Neale & Co. mark was only used between 1778 and 1795.
Reference: Neale Pottery & Porcelain: Its Predecessors and Successors 1763-1820, Diana Edwards, page 126, #100 for a large stand...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware
British Sailor
s Woolwork of Three Royal Navy Ships, Circa 1885
Located in Downingtown, PA
British sailor's woolwork of three royal navy ships
Circa 1885
The British sailor woolwork depicts an unusual scene of three different types of Royal Navy Ships which are all flying the White...
Category
Antique 1880s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
Regency Regency Ridgway Porcelain Fruit Coolers, Covers and Liners
By Ridgway Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
The Regency Ridgway porcelain coolers are decorated in pattern #1173. They have a circular body raised on three dolphin feet and trefoil base and painted ...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Serving Pieces
Materials
Porcelain
Miles Mason Porcelain Chinoiserie Plates with the Boy and Buffalo Pattern
By Miles Mason Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
English porcelain pair of Chinoiserie plates with the boy and buffalo pattern,
Probably Miles Mason, circa 1805
The beautiful rare English porcelain Bone China plates depict a pattern found on Chinese Export porcelain and were most likely made as replacements. The pattern depicts a boy on a buffalo in a Chinese landscape with polychrome colors particularly green. A band of orange ribbon is painted around the rim.
See the attached photos of a Chinese famille rose prototype with the same design from circa 1760.
Diameter: 8 3/4 inches x 1 1/4 inches high
Reference: Silk Roads, China Ships...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century Meissen Miniature Turquoise-Ground Botanical Teapot and Cover
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
Meissen miniature Turquoise-ground teapot and cover,
1735-40
The Meissen porcelain miniature teapot has a turquoise ground with a shaped cartouche ...
Category
Antique 1730s German Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
English Sailor
s Woolwork of a Battleship with White Ensign
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Sailor's Woolwork of a Battleship,
Circa 1865-75.
The sailor's woolie depicts a starboard side view of a second rate battleship flying the White ensign under sail. White se...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
English Pearlware Blue Slip Pottery Mocha Mug
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Blue Ground Pottery Mocha Mug
Late 18th Century
The blue ground slip tankard with a white handle with leaf terminals has two bands of molded checkerboard black and white ba...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Georgian Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Pearlware, Pottery
Antique Engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe by Saverio Manetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Antique engraving of a Tucano Mangiapepe,
by Saverio Manetti
Circa 1776
A fine hand colored engraving of a Tuscan Magpie by the Italian artist Saverio Manetti. Manetti drew his work predominantly from real specimens. The work was one of the largest ornithology undertakings to that point in time.
Dimensions: 25 inches high x 22 inches wide x 1 1/4 inches deep. (frame); (63.5cm high x 55.88cm). 18 x 14 in. (sheet)
Reference: Wikipedia
Manetti was born in Brozzi to Giovanni Bernardo and Maria Teresa Nesiscolt of Prague. His early studies were in Florence and later at Pisa where he studied botany under Pier Antonio Micheli. He graduated in medicine in 1745 and worked in Florence. In 1758 he joined the National Medical College where he studied anatomy under Antonio Cocchi (1695–1758), conducting the autopsy of Cocchi.
Manetti was Professor of Botany of the "Società Botanica Fiorentina", a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Fellow of the Royal Society, learned societies in Göttingen and Montpellier, an Accademico dell'Istituto di Bologna and he maintained scientific contacts with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and with the main scientific circles of the second half of the 18th century.
He was supervisor of the Orto Botanico di Firenze in Florence from 1749 to 1782 succeeding to Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti and Secretary of the Accademia dei Georgofili. With remarkable organizational effort, he secured the publication of Storia naturale degli uccelli, Natural History of the birds, a monumental work in five volumes illustrated with 600 hand-coloured engravings based on watercolor paintings.
The book was commissioned by Maria Luisa, Grand duchess of Tuscany and the first volume was dedicated to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo. The third volume was dedicated to Ferdinando di Brobone and the fourth to Giorgio Nassau Clavering. The engravings were made by Tuscan abbot and engraver Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni who had studied under British engraver Robert Strange...
Category
Antique 1770s Italian Georgian Prints
Materials
Paper
English Porcelain Patch Box with Irish References, ""Forget Not Erin" Motto
By Coalport Porcelain
Located in Downingtown, PA
"Forget Not Erin": A Coalport Porcelain Jewel
Golden Blooms and Patriotism: An Antique London-Decorated Patch Box
This spectacular antique English porcelain patch box, circa 1820, is...
Category
Antique 1820s English Regency Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
