Lot 211
ISAAC SPACKMAN
TWO BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
£2,233
Description
The Painted Pheasant from China, 1764 set, 24cm x 18cm; and The Read-Throated Humming Bird and the Least Butcher-Bird, bears label with title and further label "H. Map & ..."
Dimensions
24.5cm x 18cm (2)
Footnote
(1) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), no. 68
cf. Dixon's 1750 series, no. 1
(2) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. I (1743), no. 38 and vol. II (1748), no. 55 respectively. The latter wrongly coloured