An Extensive Collection of Forty-One Katherine Houston Porcelain Trompe l'oeil Fruit and Vegetables, Modern

naturalistically modelled and painted as various fruit and vegetables, including: a large cut cantaloupe, six large various melons or squashes, 6 cabbages, 4 various artichokes, a cluster of three tomatoes, 2 radishes, a bunch of tied string beans, a bunch of tied asparagus, a bunch of tied carrots, a bunch of grapes, an onion, a bunch of peapods, an orange, a pear, an apple, a peach, a cluster of three plums, a cut pomegranate, and a large sun flower, signed KHO by the artist, various dates,

together with a large group of twenty-eight modern Limoges gilt-metal mounted porcelain boxes in the form of fruit and vegetables, including an asparagus head, a pomegranate, cut-apple, a carrot, a cut kiwi fruit, a bunch of tied asparagus, a tulip head, a rosebud, red chili, green chili a bunch of carrots, an aubergine, various painted marks. 69 pieces.

height of largest 8 ¼ in.

21 cm