Live Auction 7592Four British Collections Including Important Furniture
A PAIR OF ENGRAVINGS
Lot 207

A PAIR OF ENGRAVINGS

19TH CENTURY

Closed5 June 2008

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GBP 62

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A PAIR OF ENGRAVINGS
19TH CENTURY
Depicting sistres, within a parcel-gilt and red-painted moulded frame
7 x 12½ in. (18 x 32 cm.) [without frame]; 11¼ x 17 in. (28 x 43 cm.) [with frame] (2)

Specialist note

Sistres are ritual instruments from Ancient Egypt which were used by priests as musical rattles to appease dangerous deities. A Roman chair dated c. 1782-84, featuring a sistre-carved pierced splat and acquired by the Italian government in 1925, is in the Villa Borghese, Rome.