Lot 35 , A KPM Berlin Orange day-lily botanical specimen plate, c.1806-9

A KPM Berlin Orange day-lily botanical specimen plate, c.1806-9, finely painted with a titled botanical study ‘Hemerocallis fulva, Suisse Provence’, after a design by the French botanist Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757-1808), on a pale blue ground, the border with brown camaieu wreath on a pale caramel ground, underglaze blue sceptre mark, grey enamel line date code and black enamel decorator’s mark for Johann Friedrich Schultze, 24cm diameter

cf. a very similar KPM Berlin botanical plate in the Met Museum, New York, Object Number: 2020.254.3, the painting attributed to Johann Friedrich Schultze.
£300-500

Sold for £1,000