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拍品 97 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Jean-Démosthène Dugourc (Versailles 1749-1825 Paris)
A design for a fireplace, with Egyptian inspired decorations; a pharaoh, wearing a nemes (a stylised crown), and a short kilt to the left, two Osiris Canopus's flanking the fire, and a lintel with a Graeco-Roman inspired procession with draped figures
已結束2016年12月7日
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GBP 2,750
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Presumably inspired by Piranesi's Diverse Maniere d'adornare...Giambattista Piranesi Architetto, published in Rome, 1769, a large collection of etchings showing ornament derived from Egyptian, Tuscan and Grecian architecture. For fireplaces with Egyptian decoration from the series, see J. Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings, 1994, San Francisco, I, nos. 863-73.