Presenting the 19th Century Art Nouveau Favored Wild Flower - The Humble Dandelions

This was a really unusual foray I made this week into the dandelion decor, 100s of pieces came up in the search, most were inspired or reflected the Art Nouveau or Jugenstil decorative movement. It was an effort to leave the classical style art works behind, and create a flowing, natural design of floral, foliage, females, and fabulous aesthetic compositions.

From Western Europe to the Eastern Europe countries, many producers and artists in many mediums, such as glass, ceramics, illustration, textiles, woodwork, bronzes, etc. during the last part of the 19th century.

The flowers chosen were often humble wild flowers such as Queen's Lace, Dandelions, Dogwood, Daisies, Poppys, Crocus, and the cultivated flowers, Iris, Tulips, Orchids, Petunias, Etc. The interest was to show all the stages of the flowering buds and the leaves, quite inventive and accurate in their motifs.

We have carpets of dandelions in the spring here, they grow at the same rate as the first shoots of grass on some lawns. Today we find them a pest, and something to get rid off with all the other weeds who persist in showing up.

I am offering a glimpse of my late 19th century French glass vases by Legras, an antique Russian illustration of decorative dandelions, and a combination of M. Verneuil dandelions garland bands,