“She sells seashells by the seashore.” Down to the beach with British artist Dorothea Sharp. Living from 1874 to 1955, she was best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play.
Beautiful designs by Émile Gallé for a vase and a goblet, it looks like. These are turning up on a Russian art history site.
Hand-fans with flowers for August. Who needs an air conditioner if you can make your own breeze?
1930s Depression era bookplates, taken from a 1931 C. D. Reimers Bookplate Company catalogue. They were located in Fort Worth, Texas and were a firm owned by Charles Dietrich Reimers who was originally from Illinois and had been a first baseman on the Northwestern University baseball team.
Honolulu Fish. Not the ones swimming right this minute. A breathtaking collection of watercolors depicting Hawaiian fish, presumably created for a 1907 exhibit at the Honolulu Aquarium. All of these being in one lot that is up for sale on the website of James E. Arsenault and Company.
Views of the West Indies and Central and South America made by someone on a mid 1930s cruise of the islands. From an album presumably kept by someone who was on the trip. From the website of Wayfarers Bookshop. early mid 1930s, ca. 1934.
Imagery of Madagascar back when Madagascar belonged to France. Taken from an early 1900s photo album with the photographs most likely made, taken and collected by a French military officer. From the website of Wayfarers Bookshop.
Images of Guinea, showing Conakry, the Samou River rapids and various waterfalls. From 1935, back when it was a colony of France. These are from an album kept I assume by a French individual who was either living in the colony or on a visit. The album is up for sale with Wayfarers Bookshop whose website I found it on.
Watercolor designs for porcelain, by the Samson et Cie. manufactory which was established in Paris, France ca. 1845 by “Edmé Samson (1810-1891). It was later run by his son, Emile who moved the factory to Montreuil in 1864.
The intention of Samson et Cie. was to reproduce ceramics from museums and private collections, and they claimed that all such reproductions would be distinctly marked to avoid confusion with the originals. The range of wares included copies of 18th-century porcelain from such factories as Sèvres, Chelsea, Meissen and Derby, Chinese export-wares, especially armorial wares decorated with famille rose colours and mugs decorated with the Fitzhugh pattern, Delftware, Iznikware, maiolica and faience.” (Grove Dictionary of Art). (taken from the dealer’s description).
Watercolors of fashionable interiors in houses and hotels that look to be from the 1840s. From an album probably kept by a female member of the Coote family whose family seat was at Ballyfin, Leinster, Ireland. The album being up for sale on the website of rare book dealer Justin Croft.
