拍品 21
21
A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE FEMALE VOTIVE HEADS

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A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE FEMALE VOTIVE HEADS

In the Egyptian style, with pharoic headdress and tied wringlets at their gorge, on stepped nero belgio plinths with bell flower and leaf cast galleries
14½in. (37cm) high (2)

拍品专文

Designed in the 'Antique' manner popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Recueil de Decoration Interieures, 1801, these bacchic nymph herms relate to those on bronze-mounted furnishings in the Egyptian manner manufactured around 1800 by the ebeniste Martin Eloy Ligneraux of the Rue Vivienne.