Tulip Book

Artisan: Ken Blythe
Date: Unknown
Intended Room: Library
Dimensions: TBC
Inventory number: 2022.203

Provenance: Purchased from the artist’s daughter and son-in-law, who trade as The Little Book Company on eBay, June 2022

Tulips were as expensive as gold during the 17th century, when a craze for these beautiful flowers resulted in a breathless race to find new and ever more stunning varieties. I hope to display some tulips in Delft vases in the Drawing Room, with the blue and white porcelain, and I thought it appropriate that the Quartermaines should have a reference book for the flowers.