Paintings with some interesting things going on by New Zealand born creative type Felix Runcie Kelly (1914-1994). Kelly also did graphic, stage, and interior design. He lived for most of his life in Great Britain.
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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
Bird tureens in porcelain from Meissen. If you stare at them long enough maybe they will start to chirp. German.
Partridge tureen and cover modeled as a partridge seated on a basket weave nest. Quail box and cover modeled as a quail perched on a grassy mound. The pheasant perched astride a high mound with three speckled chicks at her feet. Mid 18th c. German. Meissen, maker. Maker’s marks: each with blue crossed swords marks for Meissen. The tureen with an indistinct impressed “D”. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-meissen-partridge-tureen-and-cover-a-5722294-details.aspx
Paintings of the Alps from just a little while back. Swiss. Alexandre Calame, artist. Living from 1810 to 1864, Calame exhibited his landscapes in Paris and Berlin. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school.
Gothic Revival candelabra to make your home look more baronial. 1850 and later, all in brass.
Pair of large brass Gothic Revival candelabra, each with seven sconces. Hooped frame on arched supports embellished with clover leaves, on knopped stem and dome base with three feet. Late 19th c. Brass. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-large-pair-of-gothic-revival-brass-5825649-details.aspx
Paintings of the Grand Gallery in the Louvre in Paris with a fair number of people milling around. French, painted by Hubert Robert who after managing to escape the guillotine ended up as the first “keeper of paintings” at the Louvre.
Still lifes with fruit, just one piece of fruit. Born in Mainz in the Rhineland-Palatinate district. Justus Juncker, painter (1703-1767).
Paintings of palm houses. The perfect place to hibernate. Prussian (German). Carl Blechen, artist. Living from 1798 to 1840, Blechen taught landscape painting at the Berlin Academy and worked as a decorator at the Royal Theatre on the Alexanderplatz in Berlin.
These works are all of the Palm House near Potsdam, Germany that had been designed by noted architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel to house the collection of palm trees that belonged to King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.
Victorian flowers, lithographic plates from “A monograph of the genus Lilium.” Written by John Henry Elwes and illustrated by W. H. Fitch, it was published in London in 1877.
Some of the first images of tropical fish published in London. Taken from John Whitchurch Bennett’s 1830 work “A selection from the most remarkable and interesting of the fishes found on the coast of Ceylon.” These plates are from the 1834 edition.
Animals to make your dinner table resemble a sterling silver zoo. Novelty silver made by James Barclay Hennell who was a son of Robert Hennell who started the London firm Robert Hennell & Sons. Robert Hennell & Sons was in existence before 1851. It was sold in 1887. Two claret jugs and a smoker’s companion for when the gentlemen light their cigars.
