Sets of "Garden Images" wipe clean Table Mats or Place Mats, Large Place Mats and Coasters. Each decorated with a different floral print and backed with cork.
World Exploration and natural discoveries had a profound effect on individuals in the 18th century. Naturalists in the New World recorded flora and fauna and sent botanical illustrations and even specimens back to England. The dominent influence in the design is an important watercolour painting of a magnolia painted by Georg Ehret in 1737. Ehret is widely regarded as the most important botanical illustrater of the 18th century, when curiosity and interest in the natural world led to the incorporation of designs from flora and fauna in silver, furniture, prints, textiles and other objects known as the "decorative arts". The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has an extensive collection of thr decorative arts that reflect this great interest in nature.