May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 306

Price Realized: $ 9,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
A NATIVE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST REDOUTÉ, PIERRE-JOSEPH. [Peronia stricta] Finished drawing executed in watercolor, graphite, and ink on fine vellum, signed lower left in brown ink: P. J. Redouté. 475x355 mm sheet size; fine condition. Matted and framed, with letterpress vellum text leaf. [Malmaison, France; 1802-16]

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The Powdery alligator-flag, as this flower is sometimes called, is native to the southeastern United States and the lower Mississippi River Valley.