Lot Essay
Designed in the Antique manner popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Receuil de Decorations Interieurs 1801, these bacchic nymph herms relate to bronze furniture mounts in the Egyptian manner.
Details
A pair of bronze female Egyptian Votive heads, each with Pharoic headdress and tied wringlets at their gorge, on marmo giallo bases with bronze wreaths and stepped plinths -- 12in. (30.5cm.) high. (2)