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A very fine Empire Paris Porcelain Egyptian revival parcel gilt white and biscuit surtout de table by Dagoty, comprising a centrepiece modelled as a pair of outward facing kneeling Egyptian priestesses of the goddess Isis wearing headdresses and tunic gathered below their bare breasts, each holding ringed handles attached to a flaring vase headed by a mask head band above stylised leaves on striped stems, on a rectangular base supported by lion paw feet, the central group accompanied by a pair of similar seated Egyptian figures wearing bird headdresses and similar tunics, their feet astride an overscale cup supported between their knees
Paris, date circa 1805-1810
The central group: Height 28.5 cm, width 38.5 cm.
The side figures: Height 31 cm, width 26.8 cm. each.
Provenance: A New York artist.
Literature: Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, “Faience et Pocelaine de Paris, XVIIIe-XIXe Siècles”, 1995, p. 342, pl. 325, illustrating an identical example of the central group bearing the gilded mark: Manufacture de Sa Majesté l’Impératrice à Paris, in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Arcadi Gaydamak, “Russian Empire, Architecture, Decorative and Applied Arts, Interior Decoration 1800-1830”, 2000, p. 56, illustrating a watercolour by Thomas de Thomon of Tsar Alexander I’s study in the Winter Palace decorated in the Egyptian style, on each of the book shelves are similar surtouts composed of a central kneeling Egyptian figure holding a vase flanked by models of identical design to the present central group, and p. 57, illustrating another comparable example of identical design but painted to imitate patinated bronze
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