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PERHAPS 18TH CENTURY - 20TH CENTURY
Details
A collection of Continental trompe l'oeil fruit
Perhaps 18th Century - 20th Century
Naturally modelled and coloured, comprising: a pear box and a cover applied with foliage and a caterpillar (slight fritting and flaking to extremities, crack to both); a bunch of grapes on a vine leaf, the leaf with two pierced apertures (bunch of grapes restuck and part of stem a replacement, leaf with cracks or possibly restuck break, underside of leaf with chip and small area of restoration adjacent to edge, front with flake to glaze near edge); a brown aubergine with short green stem (some areas of re-touching to slight fritting and flaking); an ochre and red apple; an ochre and red apple on a green leaf (sections of leaf restored replacements, stem broken and restuck); a yellow and orange pear on green and yellow foliage with manganese veins (chipping to tip of one leaf, leaves with restored chips and damages, stem restored); a small orange pumpkin with green and ochre markings (minute chip to stem, underside with area of re-touching to flaking); a yellow lemon on a leaf (leaf broken through and restuck, slight chipping to leaf and stem, slight flaking to lemon); two small nuts, one in its green shell, the other visible in half of its shell (slight fritting and flaking and with some areas of re-touching)
Perhaps 18th Century - 20th Century
Naturally modelled and coloured, comprising: a pear box and a cover applied with foliage and a caterpillar (slight fritting and flaking to extremities, crack to both); a bunch of grapes on a vine leaf, the leaf with two pierced apertures (bunch of grapes restuck and part of stem a replacement, leaf with cracks or possibly restuck break, underside of leaf with chip and small area of restoration adjacent to edge, front with flake to glaze near edge); a brown aubergine with short green stem (some areas of re-touching to slight fritting and flaking); an ochre and red apple; an ochre and red apple on a green leaf (sections of leaf restored replacements, stem broken and restuck); a yellow and orange pear on green and yellow foliage with manganese veins (chipping to tip of one leaf, leaves with restored chips and damages, stem restored); a small orange pumpkin with green and ochre markings (minute chip to stem, underside with area of re-touching to flaking); a yellow lemon on a leaf (leaf broken through and restuck, slight chipping to leaf and stem, slight flaking to lemon); two small nuts, one in its green shell, the other visible in half of its shell (slight fritting and flaking and with some areas of re-touching)
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