ATTRIBUTED TO SAMUEL DIXON, CIRCA 1748

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A SET OF FOUR IRISH GEORGE II EMBOSSED FLOWER PICTURES
ATTRIBUTED TO SAMUEL DIXON, CIRCA 1748
Each depicting ribbon-tied bouquets of spring and summer flowers including parrot tulips, fritillaries, anenomes, ranunculus and others in black and gilt-japanned frames
10 x 8 in. (26 x 20 cm.) and 9¼ x 7½ in. (23.5 x 19 cm.) (4)

Provenance

Lawrence's of Crewkerne, Somerset, 14 July 1994, lot 468.
The Montague Sainsbury Collection, Christie's, London, 6 July 1999, lot 803.

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Lot Essay

This group of four basso relievo flower pictures are likely to have been part of Samuel Dixon's 1748 set of twelve and one of these, with tulip, purple anemone and pulsatilla, also features in lot 180. A comparable example is illustrated in Ada K. Longfield, op. cit., 1980, p.4, fig.3.

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