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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF IRENE KORHUMEL
(LOTS 335-336)
In 1950, Irene Korhumel and her husband Newton purchased Whippoorwill Farm, an estate just west of the town of Lake Forest, a northern suburb of Chicago. The main house, guest cottage, green house, dog kennels for forty, stables, half-mile black cinder riding circuit, and extensive flower and vegetable gardens were situated on forty acres that included both pasture and forest land. As well as being enjoyed by the family, the riding path was open to neighbors and was used by Adlai Stevenson and his house guests, including Eleanor Roosevelt and other notables.
This change of lifestyle marked the beginning of Irene and Newton's long-term art collecting, most aggressively pursued in the 1950s and 1960s, but continued until their deaths in 2001 and 2010. They became personal friends with the artist Hovsep Pushman and assembled a sizeable collection of his work, from which no paintings have ever sold. Impressionist and modern pictures were added to the collection. Their love of birds and flowers was reflected in the acquisition of a sizeable number of ornithological and botanic specimen groups made in England at Royal Worcester - the Birds of America series by Dorothy Doughty.
Their extensive collection of 'Flora Danica' porcelain, offered for sale in the following two lots, was acquired directly from the Royal Copenhagen factory over a period of twenty-five years, starting in 1954. The first of these purchases was made that year during a visit to Denmark as part of a government delegation of American businessmen tasked by the Eisenhower Administration with assessing the success of post World War II redevelopment programs in Europe funded by the Marshall Plan. Mr. Korhumel's introduction to the director of the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory was facilitated by the Danish court.
'Flora Danica' is the name given to both the porcelain service made by Royal Copenhagen and to the print sources on which the botanically correct specimen flowers are based - a set of engravings by the botanist Georg Christian von Oeder of all known Danish flowers.
A ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN 'FLORA DANICA' PART DINNER SERVICE
20TH CENTURY, BLUE WAVE AND GREEN PRINTED AND MARKS, PATTERN NO. 20, VARIOUS GREEN PAINTED AND INCISED PATTERN NUMBERS
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A ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN 'FLORA DANICA' PART DINNER SERVICE
20TH CENTURY, BLUE WAVE AND GREEN PRINTED AND MARKS, PATTERN NO. 20, VARIOUS GREEN PAINTED AND INCISED PATTERN NUMBERS
Finely painted with a botanical specimen, identified in Latin on the underside, within a border of gilt-outlined panels alternating with bosses, comprising:
A soup tureen and cover, no. 3560
An oval platter as a tureen stand, no. 3519
An oval vegetable dish and cover, no, 3567
Two circular vegetable dishes and covers, no. 3568
Three shallow circular bowls, no. 3504
Two deep oval bowls, no. 3507
A triangular pickle dish, no. 3544
Three smaller triangular pickle dishes, no. 3542
A sauceboat on fixed stand, no. 3556
Four oval salts, no. 3557
A baluster-form mustard-pot and notched cover, no. 3589 and canted square stand, no. 3515
A baluster-form custard cup, cover and canted square stand of similar form, nos. 3514/3515
A triangular custard cup, cover and stand, nos. 3575/3576
Two small circular butter tubs and covers, no. 3502
A large bottle cooler, no. 3571
Twelve two-handled cream soup cups and thirteen stands, no. 3612
Seventeen reticulated place plates, no. 3574
Fifteen dinner plates, no. 3549
Thirteen luncheon plates, no. 3550
Thirteen bread-and-butter plates, no. 3552
Thirteen individual butter pats, no. 3501
Seven dinner knives with porcelain handles, silver-gilt ferrules and Raadvad blades (140)
20TH CENTURY, BLUE WAVE AND GREEN PRINTED AND MARKS, PATTERN NO. 20, VARIOUS GREEN PAINTED AND INCISED PATTERN NUMBERS
Finely painted with a botanical specimen, identified in Latin on the underside, within a border of gilt-outlined panels alternating with bosses, comprising:
A soup tureen and cover, no. 3560
An oval platter as a tureen stand, no. 3519
An oval vegetable dish and cover, no, 3567
Two circular vegetable dishes and covers, no. 3568
Three shallow circular bowls, no. 3504
Two deep oval bowls, no. 3507
A triangular pickle dish, no. 3544
Three smaller triangular pickle dishes, no. 3542
A sauceboat on fixed stand, no. 3556
Four oval salts, no. 3557
A baluster-form mustard-pot and notched cover, no. 3589 and canted square stand, no. 3515
A baluster-form custard cup, cover and canted square stand of similar form, nos. 3514/3515
A triangular custard cup, cover and stand, nos. 3575/3576
Two small circular butter tubs and covers, no. 3502
A large bottle cooler, no. 3571
Twelve two-handled cream soup cups and thirteen stands, no. 3612
Seventeen reticulated place plates, no. 3574
Fifteen dinner plates, no. 3549
Thirteen luncheon plates, no. 3550
Thirteen bread-and-butter plates, no. 3552
Thirteen individual butter pats, no. 3501
Seven dinner knives with porcelain handles, silver-gilt ferrules and Raadvad blades (140)
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