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PFAEGc Summers Rhapsody
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Picked From An English Garden collection, "Summer Rhapsody" by Waltraud Fuchs von Schwarzbek. Fourth issue in the series.
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$35.00
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| Picked From An English Garden collection, "Summer Rhapsody" by Waltraud Fuchs von Schwarzbek. Fourth issue in the series.
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Picked From An English Garden collection, "Summer Rhapsody" by Waltraud Fuchs von Schwarzbek. Fourth issue in the series. Bradford Exchange, 1994. Dimentions of the plate are approx. 7 by 7 inches. Square in shape. Suggested retail $50.00.
Although the flowers in "Summer Rhapsody"—fourth and final issue. in artist Waltraud Fuchs von Schwarzbek's Picked from an English Garden series—arc in full bloom, marvelously colorful, and exquisitely rendered, there appears to be a tinge (faint but unmistakeable) of something bittersweet in the air.
How could that be? After all, this burst of bold, cream-colored gladiolus, showy pink roses, pretty little bluebells and modest but handsome daisies is a very welcome sight. It is, in fact so lovely that one can easily imagine the old round "Summer is icumen in" being softly sung by unseen voices above.
But this is "Summer Rhapsody," and a rhapsody, in spite of its exuberant praise of bounty and beauty, always has an element of loss in it. Ms. Fuchs von Schwarzbek's skillful artistic interpretation of this loss is the presence of an overripe sunflower in the middle of her summer bouquet. It is the hitter with the sweet: a premonition of flowerless fall and winter days to come-- along with the rich seeds of summer's renewal.
The creation of the fine collector's plate you have just acquired and whose authenticity is certified by this document is the result of work by an international cadre of skilled artisans. After the plate art was created in the United States, a fine ceramic transfer, incorporating pigments carefully chosen to faithfully re-create the vibrant beauty of the artist's original, was created in France and Germany and permanently fired into the fine Japanese porcelain plate body at more than 1,460° Fahrenheit by talented craftsmen and craftswomen in the United States.
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