The Most Beautiful Adornments

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 -- by Bacchus

Dr. Faustus and his recent post on the sexual metaphor of flowers was fresh in my mind when I stumbled over this erotic bookplate:

are not the most beautiful adornment of plants their sexual organs?

Sadly, I don’t share enough intellectual context with the artist to know who s/he was quoting and citing as “G. VII, 3”.