拍品 123
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN-PAINTED, SIMULATED PORPHYRY AND PARCEL-GILT HERMS

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN-PAINTED, SIMULATED PORPHYRY AND PARCEL-GILT HERMS

Each with square stepped tapering top above an Egyptian maiden's mask wearing a nemes headdress, above a square tapering pilaster headed by a mount of a pharoah on a lion-headed day-bed and terminating in a palmette, above two feet and a rectangular stepped base, the heads and the feet 19th Century
61½in. (16.5cm.) wide; 54¼in. (138cm.) high; 7½in. (19cm.) deep (2)

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These herms are inspired from such models as the caryatids flanking a fireplace at the Palace of Compiègne (see: Le style Empire, Paris, p. 40, fig. 23). The mounts relate to designs by Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon (1747-1825), drawn on his travels to Egypt when accompanying Napoleon. Upon his return he published his Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte in 1802 and between 1809 and 1822 his monumental Description de l'Egypte, wherefrom this particular mount is inspired