Asparagus Collection

Advert for Harrods silverware 1937
Advertisement for siverware for Harrods to celebrate the Coronation Year including Silver- salver, entree dish, hot water jug, coaster, asparagus tongs, pair of candlesticks

White Star Line, John Maddock and Sons asparagus dish. 8ins

White Star Line, asparagus tongs and tea strainer
White Star Line, First Class silver plated asparagus tongs and Cunard White Star plated tea strainer

White Star Line, Losol ware asparagus dish with house flag logo at centre. 8ins

White Star Line, Stonier Delft asparagus dish
White Star Line, Second Class Delft Stonier and Company asparagus dish with flag logo. 9ins

White Star Line - Elkington plate asparagus tongs. Date: early 20th century

White Star Line - Stonier and Co asparagus dish
White Star Line - Second Class Stonier and Co asparagus dish in the blue and white Delft pattern. A/f. 9.5 inches

Plate stand, spoon basket, salad dish, sauce boat, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Cutlery, salad servers, tongs, etc
Cutlery, salad servers, sugar tongs, bread knife, etc. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Good King Henry, Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Good King Henry or poor-mans asparagus, Chenopodium bonus-henricus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1802

Asaragus from Sowerbys English Botany, London
Asparagus plant with root, flower and fruit, Asparagus officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, London, 1796

Wild asparagus, Asparagus acutifolius. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Asparagus tenuifolius. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Sea asparagus, Asparagus maritimus (Asparagus scaber). Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Asparagus, Asparagus officinalis, and red plantain, Plantago major rubrifolia. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Prussian asparagus or wild asparagus, Ornithogalum pyrenaicum (Ornithogalum sulphureum). Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Dishes of asparagus
Asparagus - four ways to present asparagus. Illustration from the Ladies Home Journal February 1923. Artist anon. Date: 1923

Curtis British Entomology Plate 740
Hymenoptera: Spalangia nigra [Plant: Asparagus officinalis (Common Asparagus)] Date: 1824-39

ASPARAGUS SALAD
An intriguing salad combination - asparagus, slices of hard boiled egg and peas. Date: 1940s

JAPANESE ARRANGEMENT - 6
ASPARAGUS LUCIDUS and CYPRIPEDIUM a Summer arrangement Date: 1934

JAPANESE ARRANGEMENT - 4
ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI and ORCHID a Spring arrangement. Ohara School of Ikebana Date: 1934

Madame Fillioux - Lyon, France - The Queen of Chickens
Madame Fillioux (1865-?) working at her sons (D. Frechin) establishment where she appears to specialise in the sale of wine, asparagus and chickens! 73, Rue Duquesne, Lyon, France

Maginot Line fortifications by G. H. Davis
With Asparagus anti-tank defences: Maginot Line fortifications at the start of the Second World War. A typical frontier work, with galleries within a hillside, leading to pill boxes

Label design, Kings Cadets Asparagus
Label design, Kings Cadets California Green Asparagus. early 20th century

Artificially Served Ices, in a range of shapes and colours. circa 1890

Table display -- boars head with vegetables. 19th century

Packing Asparagus
Two women packing asparagus into bundles to be sold elsewhere, near Evesham in Worcestershire Date: 1930s

Seletion of sterling silver, electro-plate cutlery 1929
A selection of sterling silver, electro-plate and stainless steel butter, bread, cake knives, cheese scoop, sugar sifter, tea infuser, asparagus tongs, wine cork, crumb scoop, pickle, butter

Asparagus capensis
Illustration from Plantarum rariorum Horti Csarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones, 1797/98, by Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Asparagus officinalis, asparagus
From the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Plants / Asparagus
Asparagus Officinalis French : Asperge

Beeton Vegetables
Potato croquettes - spinach & eggs - asparagus - cauliflower - wafer potatoes - mushrooms - peas - French beans - stuffed tomatoes - carrots

Veg as Human 3 1900
The Vegetable Wedding No.3: the bride and groom, with maids and pages of honour

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