A Pair of 19thC Italian School Oil & Tempura on Canvas Studies of Roses poa-item the fly orchid

the fly orchid

and to the reverses and both plates have been crudely cut at their sides but the wholes still remain decorative and the diagrams and annotations remain in tact so this only serves in adding some more character

Examples of advertising figures from the late nineteenth century are more commonly found as tobacconist figures and they are usually of carved wood and thus this stoneware example would have been very expensive to make at the time

traveling in Italy together

the whole preserved by Joseph Cullingford of Durham and surviving from the last quarter of the nineteenth century in good overall condition

A Pair of 19thC Italian School Oil & Tempura on Canvas Studies of Roses poa-item the fly orchidOrigin: Italian, Umbria District Period: Macchiaioli Provenance: Formerly of the Collection Pietro Vitali, Foligno Date: c. 1850 70 The Works: 10 wide x 14 high & 9. 5 wide x 13 high In Frames: 14 wide x 18 high x 1. 5 deep & 13 wide x 17 high x 1. 25 deep Painted in oils and tempura on canvas and presented in their original moulded and gilded frames, the pair of works, of slightly differing sizes, depicting bunches of red roses each tied with green