Lot 33 , A KPM Berlin Aztec lily botanical specimen plate, c.1806-9

A KPM Berlin Aztec lily botanical specimen plate, c.1806-9, finely painted with a titled botanical study ‘Amaryllis formosissima Mexique’, after a design by the French botanist Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757-1808), on a pale blue washed ground, the border with brown camaieu vine wreath on a pale caramel ground, underglaze blue sceptre mark, grey enamel line date code and brown enamel decorator’s mark +, 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 £1,200