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Circa 1860 English-made Victorian majolica pitcher with fern designs
Pteridomania and Fern-Fever are terms for the Victorian era craze of fern collecting and fern motifs in decorative art including pottery, glass, metals, textiles, wood, printed paper, and sculpture "appearing on everything from christening presents to gravestones and memorials."[1]. Fern motifs first became conspicuous at 1862 International Exhibition and remained popular "as fond symbol of pleasurable pursuits" until the turn of the century.[1]
As fern fronds are somewhat flat they were used for decoration in ways that many other plants could not be. They were glued into collectors' albums, affixed to three dimensional objects, used as stencils for "spatter-work", inkled and pressed into surfaces for nature printing, and so forth.[1]
Fern pottery patterns were introduced by Wedgwood, Mintons Ltd, Royal Worcester, Ridgeway, George Jones and others with various shapes and styles of decoration including majolica. A memorial to Sir William Jackson Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was made commissioned from Josiah Wedgwood and Sons and erected in Kew Church in 1867 with jasperware panels with applied sprigs representing exotic ferns. A copy was presented to what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum where it may still be seen.[1]
While realistic depictions of ferns were especially favored in the decorative arts of this period, "Even when the representation was stylised such as was common on engraved glass and metal, the effect was still recognisably 'ferny'."[1]
Referencias[]
- D. E. Allen, The Victorian fern craze, 1969
- David Hershey 1996 "Doctor Ward's Accidental Terrarium". The American Biology Teacher 58:276-281
- Boyd, Peter D. A. (2002-01-02). "Pteridomania - the Victorian passion for ferns". Error: journal= not stated. Antique Collecting 28, 6, 9-12.. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
- Boyd, Peter D. A., Ferns and Pteridomania in Victorian Scotland
- Lusby, Phillip and Wright, Jenny (2002) Scottish Wild Plants: Their History, Ecology and Conservation. Edinburgh. Mercat. ISBN 1841830119.
- Ratcliffe, Derek (1977) Highland Flora. Inverness. HIDB.
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