A large service in this pattern was in the Garbisch Collection at Pokety Farms, sold there by Sotheby's, May 23, 1980, lot 459. Its botanical decoration, with the numerous insects and carefully rendered European flowers, may well have been based on a mid-century specimen book, as the well-known 1730's botanical pattern was on Marie Sybille Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium of 1705.