CIRCA 1805, UNDERGLAZE BLUE SCEPTRE AND BLUE ENAMEL DASH MARK, PAINTER'S IRON-RED MARK, PRESSNUMMER 25 AND INCISED // TO FOOTRIM

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A Berlin botanical plate
Circa 1805, underglaze blue sceptre and blue enamel dash mark, painter's iron-red mark, Pressnummer 25 and incised // to footrim
Painted by Schultze after Étienne Pierre Ventenat, the centre with a specimen inscribed in black script on the reverse Dionoea muscipula. from Caroline Septentrionale., on a brown ground within a gilt line, the pale-pink border with a band of sepia foliage within a gilt line rim (the gilding with perhaps some retouching)
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of further plates from this service, see Ilse Baer in Das Flora Danica-Service (Copenhagen 1999), pp. 252-260. This plate is from an unidentified botanical service produced at the same time as the famous Château de la Malmaison service supplied to the Empress Joséphine. The frequent use of the same graphic sources as the Malmaison service has led to much mis-attribution.

The source for this plate, printed above, is Étienne Pierre Ventenat's botanical illustration for Jardin de la Malmaison (Paris 1803), pl. XXIX.

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