Coinciding with the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show going virtual, a number of The Cotswolds Art & Antique Dealers' Association members are highlighting the inspiration that flowers have had on artists and craftsmen around the world over the years on Instagram (@cadaartandantiquesassociation).  From Monday 18 until Saturday 23 May 2020, posts will include Chinese porcelain and textiles from Catherine Hunt Oriental Antiques, pottery like a collection of six English pearlware pottery shell edge platters with blue shell edge and stunning Pratt coloured baskets of flowers from John Howard and from Hall-Bakker Decorative Arts a hand-crafted figure entitled “The Tulip Woman” by Charles Vyse. Ceramics and glass include Baccarat paperweights from Delomosne & Son Ltd.

A colourful silk embroidered Nim Suzani (half-size Suzani), from the second half of the 19th century, was probably made in Bokhara, Uzbekistan, comes from Legge Carpets. A charming Arts and Crafts silkwork picture ‘The gap in our hedge’ has a splendidly carved oak frame, circa 1900, from David Pickup Antiques, as well as a set of 12 engravings of Robert Furbers’ Twelve months of Flowers with contemporary hand colouring and ebonised pear wood frames engraved by Fletcher after Peter Casteels, dating from 1730.  Robert Furber was a British horticulturist and member of the English Society of Gardeners. He had a nursery in Kensington.  

Furniture and interior accessories come from Alderson Antiques amongst which is a rare paIr of red lacquer commodes, decorated with gilt hunting scenes inlaid with mother of pearl, rococo ormolu mounts and original variegated marble tops, French, circa 1875-1925, whilst Moxhams Antiques has a fine Italian mid-18th century figured walnut bombe commode with attractive inlaid flowers to the front and sides, circa 1750.  Architectural Heritage has exhibited at the Chelsea Flower Show for the past 40 years.  Amongst the garden furniture and statuary for sale is a large Coalbrookdale fern and blackberry pattern cast iron seat, circa 1870, £3,400 and a large lead figure of a flower girl, circa 1910, £5,600.

To be viewed on Instagram.

For more information visit The Cotswolds Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association, where the individual dealers’ contact details and websites can be found.