Samuel Dixon

Lot 201: SAMUEL DIXON

Name: SAMUEL DIXON
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
SKU: lb7mjwx514

Est: $0 USD - $0 USDSold:

Lyon & TurnbullEdinburgh, United KingdomSeptember 29, 2004

Item Overview

Description

TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY

The Painted Pheasant from China, 1750 series, number I, inscribed on the back of the frame "Painted Pheasant", 24cm x 18cm; and The Peacock Pheasant from China, 1750 series, number II, inscribed on the back of the frame "Peacock Pheasant"
23cm x 17.5cm (2)

Artist or Maker

Samuel Dixon

Literature

Ada K Longfield, "More about Samuel Dixon and his Imitators", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980) fig. 4 Ada K Longfield "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures of Flowers and Birds", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society vol. XVIII, no. 4 (Oct 1975) fig. 6

Notes

From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), nos. 68 and 67 respectively

Auction Details

Fine Antiques

Lyon & Turnbull

September 29, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EBH, EH1 3RR, UK

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