Botanical Plates
Product Description
Elegant porcelain luncheon or dessert plates are decorated with two different designs of precisely drawn and richly colored details of 18th century botanical illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughters. Their work offers an intimate view of the beauty that drew these women to nature. The images are from Merian’s book, an edition of which is in the collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute.
- Plates are porcelain, 8.5" in diameter
- Microwave- and dishwasher-safe
Maria Sibylla Merian was a pioneering woman of art and science—a unique achievement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Merian became an accomplished botanical painter and entomologist at an early age. Her passion for insects led her to groundbreaking discoveries in metamorphosis. Later in her life, Merian displayed a then-unheard-of independence when she and her daughter Dorothea left Holland for Dutch Suriname, in northeastern South America, where they studied and painted exotic insects. Two years later, Maria and Dorothea returned to Amsterdam and, with Maria’s other daughter, Johanna, worked together to produce one of the greatest illustrated natural-history treatises of all time, The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname (1719).
A - PLTMOF - Parrot Flower
B - PLTMGF - Guava
- Plates are porcelain, 8.5" in diameter
- Microwave- and dishwasher-safe
Maria Sibylla Merian was a pioneering woman of art and science—a unique achievement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Merian became an accomplished botanical painter and entomologist at an early age. Her passion for insects led her to groundbreaking discoveries in metamorphosis. Later in her life, Merian displayed a then-unheard-of independence when she and her daughter Dorothea left Holland for Dutch Suriname, in northeastern South America, where they studied and painted exotic insects. Two years later, Maria and Dorothea returned to Amsterdam and, with Maria’s other daughter, Johanna, worked together to produce one of the greatest illustrated natural-history treatises of all time, The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname (1719).
A - PLTMOF - Parrot Flower
B - PLTMGF - Guava
