Lot 200
GREEN TRANSFER PRINTED MEAT DRAINER IN THE 'GIRAFFE' PATTERN
MID 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One | Wednesday 18 Feb at 10am | Lots 1 to 352
Description
depicting three giraffes, one seated, attended by two keepers in Arabian dress, in an exotic landscape with tents and palm trees, impressed ‘N I’
Dimensions
37.5cm wide, 29.8cm high
Footnote
This pattern was first published by John Ridgway in 1836. The scene is taken from part of a coloured lithograph by G. Scharf, dated 1836, which shows four giraffes destined for London Zoo. It is titled ‘The Giraffes with the Arabs who brought them over to this Country / Zoological Gardens / Regent's Park'. They were captured in the Sudan by M. Thibaut, a French trader, and they were bought to London via Malta in May 1836.