overall: 20 in x 8 in x 8 5/8 in; 50.8 cm x 20.32 cm x 21.9075 cm
base: 15.6 cm; 6 5/32 in
overall: 19 1/2 in x 8 in x 7 1/2 in; 49.53 cm x 20.32 cm x 19.05 cm
Object Name:
Botanical Model
model, botanical, theobroma cacao
Place made:
Germany
Date made:
ca 1900
Description:
Robert Brendel began in business in Breslau in 1866, making lovely and accurate models of enlarged flowers, and winning medals at major exhibitions: Moscow (1872), Cologne (1890), and Chicago (1893). Following Brendel’s death in 1898, his son Reinhold moved the firm to a suburb of Berlin and won several more exhibition medals.
Ref: Graziana Fiorini, Luana Maekawa, and Peter Stiberc, “Save the Plants: Conservation of Brendel Anatomical Botany Models,” The Book and Paper Group Annual 27 (2008): 35-45
