A Decorative Group of Five George III Period Framed & Hand-Coloured Stipple Botanical Engravings from The Temple of Flora; or Garden of Nature c.1799-1809 antiques and Sittingbourne in Kent (1870)

and Sittingbourne in Kent (1870)

There are several losses to the glaze with chips and cracks as per the photographs though the jar is in sound structural condition and it remains beautifully decorative

So the superstition goes that seeing one magpie constitutes as bad luck

Height: 13 inches (at head)

A Decorative Group of Five George III Period Framed & Hand-Coloured Stipple Botanical Engravings from The Temple of Flora; or Garden of Nature c.1799-1809 antiques and Sittingbourne in Kent (1870)Origin: English Period: George III Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1799 1809 The Engravings: 19 x 13. 5 In Frames: 21. 25 x 15. 75 (each) The decorative group of five framed and hand coloured folio stipple engravings with etching on wove paper, of botanical interest, each showing a named species of flora, published between 1799 1807 by Dr Thornton, London for "New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus Von Linnaeus and the Temple of Flora, or