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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
Chinese Export Porcelain Taoist Immortal Figures,
Eight Immortals and Shou Laou,
Late 18th-early 19th century
The Chinese Export porcelain figures each represent a different Taoist...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Wedgwood Neo-classical Large Cachepots and Stands, A Pair, Late 18th Century
Located in Downingtown, PA
Wedgwood Neo-classical Large Cachepots and Stands,
A Pair,
Late 18th Century
The pair of circular Wedgwood pottery cache pots and underdish have a series of concave reeded panels in...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Pottery
Materials
Pearlware, Pottery
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
Chinese Export Porcelain Covered Famille Rose Two-handled Pots
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Covered Famille Rose Two-handled Pots,
Circa 1775
The unusual pair of Chinese Export porcelain circular two-handled pots and covers are painted in famille r...
Category
Antique 1770s Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
18th-century English Creamware Large Openwork Covered Jar
By Leeds Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
English Creamware Large Openwork Covered Jar,
Probably Leeds Pottery,
Circa 1780
The large and rare covered reticulated creamware jar has twisted ribbon intertwined handles and a artichoke knob It is of a shaped circular shape. The cover and the body have bands of cut openwork.
Dimensions: 10-1/2 inches high x 9 inches wide (26.67cm high x 22.86cm wide).
Provenance: Private Collection,
John Howard Antiques...
Category
Antique 1770s Georgian Jars
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
English Creamware 18th-century Feather-edged Large Plates- Set of Ten
By Leeds Pottery
Located in Downingtown, PA
18th-century English Feather-edge Plain Creamware Large Plates,
Set of Ten,
Circa 1770's
The large circular dinner plates are plain undecorated creamware with a molded feather edge....
Category
Antique 1770s Georgian Dinner Plates
Materials
Creamware, Pottery
Chinese Export Porcelain Covered Rose Mandarin Cider Jug
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Rose Mandarin Cider Jug and Cover
Circa 1810-25
The large Chinese Export porcelain cider jug and cover have two different circular scenes to each side borde...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Pitchers
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Altar Fruit Box in the form of a Peach
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Porcelain Altar Fruit Box in the form of a Peach,
19th Century.
The Chinese porcelain oval box in two parts is molded in the form of a large peach. It is naturalistically c...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
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
British Sailor's Woolwork of HMS Victor Emanuel with Red and White Ensign Border
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of HMS Victor Emanuel with Red and White Ensign Border,
Named after Victor Emanuel, King of Sardinia (also known as Piedmont-Sardinia) and future King of It...
Category
Antique 1870s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
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
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Armorial Tankard
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Armorial Tankard,
Circa 1780
The stunning Chinese Export porcelain armorial tankard is circular with a taper towards the foot. There is a coat of arm...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
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
Vintage Large Shellwork Sailor's Valentine
Located in Downingtown, PA
Vintage Sailor's Valentine,
Shellwork,
20th Century.
The impressive Valentine shellwork has a cover which is now displayed separately. The valentine is in an octagonal mahogany box...
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Shell
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
Chinese Export Porcelain Pistol-handled Vase and Cover for the American Market
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Pistol-handled Vase and Cover for the American Market,
Dated 1789 on base.
The Chinese Export porcelain vase is decorated with painted brown and gold flower...
Category
Antique 1780s Chinese George III Vases
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Teapot and Cover
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Teapot and Cover,
Circa 1740-50
The circular globular teapot is unusually painted to either side of the spou...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Export 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
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Palloni, Hot Air Balloon Complete Set of Coasters
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Piero Fornasetti Ceramic Palloni, Hot Air Balloon.
Complete Set of Coasters,
1955-60
The Piero Fornasetti ceramic coasters are a complete set of eight. They each depict a different...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Ceramic
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 Rare Turquoise Fruit Baskets & Stands - a Pair
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Turquoise Openwork Fruit Baskets & Stands,
Circa 1785
The Chinese Export porcelain openwork fruit baskets and stands are painted with an allover turquoise e...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Decorative Baskets
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Tobacco Leaf Shaped Dish with Puce Scroll
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain Pseudo Tobacco Leaf Shaped Dish,
Circa 1765
The Chinese Export porcelain shaped dish. The leaf-shaped dish is in a rare ...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
French Porcelain Perfume Bottle with Bouquets of Flowers, circa 1775
Located in Downingtown, PA
French Porcelain Perfume Bottle with Bouquets of Flowers,
circa 1775
The pear-shaped perfume bottle has moulded raised panels to each ...
Category
Antique 18th Century French Georgian Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Blue and White Porcelain After Maria Sybille Merian
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain blue and white porcelain plates,
After Maria Sybille Merian,
Pronk Workshop Design,
Dutch Market,
Circa 1740-45
A pair of blue and white plates with a design after Maria Sybille Merian, probably from the Pronk workshop. The Chinese export underglaze blue porcelain...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Export Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
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
Six New England Hitchcock Chairs Rosewood Painted & Stenciled Flowering Plants
Located in Downingtown, PA
New England Hitchcock chairs,
Set of Six,
Most likely Connecticut,
Circa 1840
The set of six side chairs have stenciled gilt decorations of flow...
Category
Antique 1840s American American Classical Chairs
Materials
Wood
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
Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates, A Pair Decorated with Sea Shells and Anemones
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
Pair of Vintage Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates,
decorated with sea anemones, urchins and shells,
#7 & #12 from Conchiglie Pattern,
Circa 1960-1970s.
The Fornasetti plates are dec...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
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
Chinese Export Large Underglaze Blue & White Porcelain Dish
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Large Underglaze Blue & White Porcelain Dish,
Circa 1770
The large attractive Chinese Export Blue and White Porcelain dish is unusually painted with a rare design. T...
Category
Antique 1770s Chinese Chinese Export Platters and Serveware
Materials
Porcelain
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
18th-century Dutch Delft Shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome Plaque
Located in Downingtown, PA
Dutch Delft shaped Chinoiserie Polychrome plaque,
Circa 1730-40
The shaped plaque has a raised molded border decorated with a series of alternating painted panels of flowers and Chinese auspicious objects. The central scene is painted with a slightly off-center table with a vase filled with flowers and a large parrot perched on the branches. Several flying bugs can be seen around the flowers. To the left is a gardener with two watering pots at his feet. The whole in a puce, yellow and green palette. The top is surmounted with a blue shell pierced with a suspension hole. The exterior rim of the plaque in blue.
Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches high x 9 3/4 inches x 1/2 inch depth.
Provenance: B.F. Edwards Collection...
Category
Antique 1730s Dutch Georgian Decorative Art
Materials
Delft, Faience
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
Chinese Export Porcelain Large Figures of Mythical Characters
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain large mythical figures,
Probably of Shouxing, God of Longevity
Circa 1775
The two Chinese Export figures stand on green shaped bases and although they a...
Category
Antique 1770s Chinese Chinese Export Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
British Sailor's Woolwork of a Ship in Dramatic Seas off a Coastline
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of a Ship in Rough Seas,
Circa 1875
The British sailor's woolie depicts a starboard view of a three-masted ship under sail in extremely rough weather as th...
Category
Antique 1870s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship with Sunset
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's Woolwork of Royal Navy Ship with Sunset,
Circa 1875
This is a lovely example of a sailor's woolie with wonderful color and subject.
The sailor's woolwork or sailor...
Category
Antique 1870s English Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Wool
Spode Neo-Classical Greek Pattern Blue Oval Dessert Dishes
By Spode
Located in Downingtown, PA
Spode neo-classical Greek pattern blue oval dessert dishes,
"A Domestic Ceremony",
Early 19th century
The Spode Greek pattern pottery dishes a...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Neoclassical Pottery
Materials
Pottery, Pearlware
British Sailor's Large Woolwork of HMS Brunswick
Located in Downingtown, PA
British Sailor's large woolwork of HMS Brunswick,
Made by J. H. Miller, Brixton,
Circa 1865
The large-scale sailor's woolwork depicts an image of a Royal Navy Second Rate Battleship...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Folk Art Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
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
