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Edward John Raby

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Edward John Raby
an album of watercolour sketches, painted with sprays of flowers and flowering branches, including laburnum, carnations, poppies, and Japanese anemone, the majority signed and inscribed with months of the year, some titled in pencil, circa 1896 (very minor foxing, the binding broken), the album -- 38cm. x 27cm.
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Lot Essay

Edward J. Raby, son of Edward Raby, the renowned flower modeller, worked at Royal Worcester from about 1870 to 1894. His studies of flowers were the source for many of the engravings used at the factory on ivory-ground wares (see lot 2). After leaving the factory he worked for Doultons until 1919.

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