Details
Each modeled as a ‘Déesses égyptiennes’ or ‘Nubiennes’, standing figure wearing an elaborate bird-form headdress, gilt necklaces and armbands, the gilt sheath running down their torso burnished with elaborate hieroglyphics, holding a palm frond in one hand, lotus in the other
2814 in. (71.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Armin B. Allen; Sotheby’s, New York, 18 May 1996, lot 247.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 3 October 2006, lot 161.
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For another of this rare pair and a reproduction of the Percier and Fontaine drawing upon which they are based, see R. de Plinval de Guillebon, Les Biscuits de Porcelaine de Paris XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, Dijon, 2012, p. 166, figs. 137 and 138.

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