Paintings of horses. Having your horse painted the way you would get a professional photograph of your cat used to be very fashionable. John Nost Sartorius, British artist. Living from 1755 to 1828, he was the son and grand son of horse artists.
Category: British
Plates of bird eggs detailed up enough that you feel like you are peeking in their nest. Victorian. Taken from Francis Orpen Morris’ 1853 work “A natural history of the nests and eggs of British birds.”
Down to the water not so long ago. English. Robert Salmon, painter. Living from 1775 to 1845, he was British but came to the United States in 1828 and painted there for several years. Painting maritime scenes and seascapes, he is considered the father of American Luminism.
Domestic scenes filled with men doing things, mostly sitting in chairs. English. John Arthur Lomax, genre painter. Living from 1857 to 1923, he studied at the Munich Academy and in Stuttgart, but returned to Britain to paint.
20th century novelty silver wheelbarrows. Some to push salt around the dinner table, some just fun to look at if you don’t want to eat your peas.
Tableware from under the sea. Majolica with fishy themes from Joseph Holdcroft and Company which was active in the 1870s and early 1880s. English.
Sea shells, plates from William Swainson’s “Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals : selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged on the principles of Cuvier and other modern zoologists” which was published in London between 1820 and 1823.
Designs done for British ceramics firm Minton, all with Classical themes. Folio 10, SD 1705/MS1895 with no class letter. The legend on original cover reading “Decorated Pieces; How: chiefly vases. Paintings, drawings, tracings, etc; mostly coloured.” (Smith, Moyr). Collections of the Minton Archives, Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Gaudy Welsh milk and cream jugs and jugs with bright decorations. Cottage ware, it was made for sale in Britain between 1820 and 1860.
Close your eyes and you will be in India if you daydream long enough. Travel posters from the 1930s by British commercial artist Gerald George Wynne Trevredyn (Gerald T. Tait) who lived from 1891 to 1954.
