New Ideas for Containers to assist simple decorative display of cut flowers/New Designs for Vases [cover-titles], 1956, together a pair of albums, with forty and twenty-nine watercolours on card respectively, mounted on card album leaves, mostly one (but sometimes two) to a page, on rectos only, each with a design for a receptacle for holding flowers, many with tissue overlay with pencil and watercolour illustration of flowers, showing how each vessel might be used, some unfinished, most titled in pencil to lower margin, two designs attributed to Merrill Rose, printed address label and calligraphic title at front of each volume, both signed by the artist, and latter dated, original blue cloth-backed pink card wrappers tied with blue cord, front covers stamped 'Marcus Adams' in gilt, and with mounted calligraphic title label, housed together in a patterned paper-covered cardboard box, title label with original illustration mounted on pull-off lid A pair of most unusual and decorative albums, showing influences of both Christopher Dresser and the Art Deco period. (2)
New Ideas for Containers to assist simple decorative display of cut flowers/New Designs for Vases [cover-titles], 1956, together a pair of albums, with forty and twenty-nine watercolours on card respectively, mounted on card album leaves, mostly one (but sometimes two) to a page, on rectos only, each with a design for a receptacle for holding flowers, many with tissue overlay with pencil and watercolour illustration of flowers, showing how each vessel might be used, some unfinished, most titled in pencil to lower margin, two designs attributed to Merrill Rose, printed address label and calligraphic title at front of each volume, both signed by the artist, and latter dated, original blue cloth-backed pink card wrappers tied with blue cord, front covers stamped 'Marcus Adams' in gilt, and with mounted calligraphic title label, housed together in a patterned paper-covered cardboard box, title label with original illustration mounted on pull-off lid A pair of most unusual and decorative albums, showing influences of both Christopher Dresser and the Art Deco period. (2)
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