A pair of Louis Philippe bronze and parcel gilt female 'Egyptian' heads

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A pair of Louis Philippe bronze and parcel gilt female 'Egyptian' heads
each with pharoic headdress and tied wringlets at their gorge, on later stepped rectangular bases with applied lyre mounts, French, part early 19th century -- 12¾in. (32cm) high (2)

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Designed in the 'Antique' manner popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Receuil de Decoration Interieurs, 1801, these bacchic nymph herms relate to those on bronze-mounted furnishings in the Egyptian manner popular in the early 19th century.

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