Keika hyakugiku Pl.25 by Keika Hosegawa Painting-Vintage Hundreds of meteors streak across

Hundreds of meteors streak across a deep night sky in Étienne Léopold Trouvelot's extraordinary 1881 illustration of the Leonid meteor storm

The ink wash underneath the figure is subtle but structural

Haase's layered colour fields and fine botanical linework are captured with full sharpness and tonal clarity

Antique Fruits presents a vintage fruit chart in the tradition of Adolphe Millot

Keika hyakugiku Pl.25 by Keika Hosegawa Painting-Vintage Hundreds of meteors streak acrossPlate 25 from the Keika hyakugiku series presents a single chrysanthemum cultivar rendered with the restrained precision of Meiji era botanical illustration. The composition is deceptively simple one bloom centred against a soft ground yet the layered petals unfold with extraordinary delicacy. Cool and warm tones are balanced with careful intention, and each brushstroke captures the organic asymmetry that centuries of Japanese horticultural tradition