Lot 202: SAMUEL DIXON

TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY

The Pea Hen Pheasant from China, 1750 series, number IV, inscribed on back of frame "Painted Pheasant/ Pea Hen Pheasant", 23cm x 17.5cm; The Black and White Chinese Cock Pheasant and Its Hen, 1750 series, number VII, inscribed on the back of frame "Cock Pheasant and Hen Pheasant/ Cock and hen Pheasant"
23cm x 17.5cm (2)

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. 7 Ada K Longfield, "More about Samuel Dixon and his Imitators", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980) fig. 6