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Antique Derby Porcelain Fruit or Ice Coolers, Covers & Liners, 
Pattern 142,  
After William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine,
Circa 1797-1810.

Superb pair of fruit coolers, covers and liners painted with named botanical specimens to sides and covers after William Curtis from The Botanical Magazine.  Also with finely painted rose bands around cover and rim.  Each flower named in English and some in Latin too in underglaze blue script to the underside.

The flowers from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine (see below)

 One finial slightly higher than other.

Cooler One: Cover Tulipo/ tulip and Narcissus/ Jonquil.
Body: Crown and D & Battens.
Winter Hellebore,  (Curtis Botanical Magazine No. 3 , Winter Hellebore ,1786) or Aconite & Silver edged Primula (No. 191 (Primrose) The Botanical Magazine. London 1792)

Cooler Two: Cover- Crown & D & Battens & 142 in blue
Flowers
Heath Leav'd St Johns-Wort & Pinnated Slipper-wort

Body: Crown, D & Battens in blue in center and
Birch-leav'd Crane's Billy (Birch-leaved Cranesbill) (Volume 5, No. 148) & Rose Cistus (Volume 2, No, 43)

Dimensions: 9 inches wide x 9 inches & 9 3/4 inches on second high.

Provenance: Private Collection;
Collection of Richard Mellon Scaife
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc.

Reference:  John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, p,192, fig 231.

William Curtis was an 18th century Englishman who devoted his life to the study of botanicals. The arrival of exotic botanical specimens to Europe prompted a demand for detailed and accurate information concerning the new plants. The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Display'd, later known as Curtis' Botanical Magazine, was issued in a small format, in monthly installments. Each installment arrived wrapped in blue papers and contained three hand-colored botanical illustrations with text describing each plant and its attributes. The first issue of the Botanical Magazine was published February 1787 and was an immediate success. It is considered to be the first horticultural magazine.

Dimensions

22.86 cm high x 22.86 & 24.77 cm




Condition report

Excellent

Stock number

NY8729

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