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A FRENCH EGYPTIAN REVIVAL MAHOGANY DINING ROOM SUITE
Circa 1925
Comprising a buffet, a dining-table and twelve chairs; the plinth supported buffet with sphynx monopodiae with a panelled back embellished with scarab bas-relief, the verde antico slab supported on a pair of sphynx monopodiae, and with a Horus-figure framed by demi-columns that are butressed by kneeling Isis figures and surmounted by a cobra-headed cornice of Uraei; the table slab, veneered en suite with a mosaic of verde antico, is supported on a frame that is embellished with cobra heads and whose Egyptian palm-headed columns are tied by a scarab-centred undertier; the scarab-backed chairs each with arrowhead palmettes and solid concave backs, with cream coloured upholstered seats, on lion monopodiae
the buffet: 67in. (170cm.) wide; 112½in. (285cm.) high; 22in. (56cm.) deep
the dining table: 79½in. (202cm.) x 53¼in. (136.5cm.); 30¾in. (78cm.) high
