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Pair of Lily Watercolors

circa 1920

MERIAN, Maria Sibylla. Maria Sibylla Merian. Leningrad Watercolors. Two volumes. Edited by Ernst and Helga Ullmann. Text volume with 146 colour illustrations, all with descripti...

Original watercolor from a Victorian album by an unknown artist. English, circa 1860.

Watercolor illustration for a series of commercial seed packets. Printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, NY, circa 1935. Some staining...

"The Queen Flower" by Dr. Robert Thornton from the quarto edition of "Temple of Flora." London, 1812. Mixed media engraving (aquatint, mezzotint, color...

A charming watercolour with white body colour of a floral study. Well presented in a mount and patterned frame. Unsigned. On wove.

This is a pair of framed original one-of-a-kind watercolor paintings of flowering plants entitled "Monandria Monogymia, Costus Speciosus" and "Tetrandria Monogynia, Ixorci Stricta" by an anonymous artist. This striking and detailed pair of framed watercolor botanical paintings are presented in identical gold-colored wood frames with cream-colored mats and gold-colored fillets. They are glazed with UV conservation glass. Each of the frames measures 21.5" high, 19.25" wide and 1" deep. The watercolors are painted on very thin Japanese or India paper, which have some wrinkling due in part to the nature of the production and the mounting on a backing of this kind of very thin paper. The paintings are otherwise in very good condition. Monandria is a class of flowers with one stamen. Cheilocostus speciosus, also know as crêpe ginger, is in the family Costaceae. It is native to southeast Asia and surrounding regions, from India to China to Queensland and Indonesia. It has also been cultivated in Puerto Rico, Mauritius, Réunion, Fiji, Hawaii, Costa Rica, Belize, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the West Indies, mainly for its ornamental beauty and for its medicinal uses. It has been used to treat fever, rash, asthma, bronchitis, kidney and other urinary problems, as and intestinal worms. It is mentioned in the Kama Sutra as an ingredient in a cosmetic to be used on the eyelashes to increase sexual attractiveness. Tetrandria is a class of flowers with four stamens. Ixorci Stricta, also known as Ixora chinensis, is native to Southeast China, Indo-China and the Philippines. Although native to the tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, it is most common in tropical Asia...

REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph. Lilium Superbum Paris, Chez L’Auteur, 1802-16 The highest peak of Redoute's artistic and botanical achievement... Among the most important monuments of b...

[CHINESE EXPORT WATERCOLOURS ON PITH PAPER]. A Group of 10 Flowers and Butterflies. mid to late nineteeenth century. A fine group of Chines...