15th Nov, 2013 9:00 GMT/BST
Autumn Fine Art Sale
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A Chinese Porcelain Topographical Plate, circa 1753, painted en grisaille with Jacob Bobart...
The design is taken from the engraved frontispiece to a poem by Abel Evans entitled Vertunnus, an epistle to Mr Jacob Bobart, Botany Professor to the University of Oxford and Keeper of the Physic Garden, published in Oxford in 1713. It is thought that Humphrey Sibthorpe, Sherardian Keeper of the Garden, commissioned this service in 1753, a copy of the engraving being sent to China to be copied. The figure on the plate is Jacob Bobart, First Keeper of the Garden, who used to be seen walking with his pet goat and dog. Similar plates are in the Ashmolean Museum and the Metropolitan Museum
Sold for £1,900
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Some stacking wear, particularly to the forelegs of the goat. Minor surface wear. 200913
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