A fine pair of Empire bronze and ormolu female Egyptian votive figures, early 19th century, wearing pharoic headdress, and with serpent entwined arms, the reverse with hieroglyph decorated columns, on rouge griotte plinths with inset rectangular plaques with chased masks, asps and ibis, the stepped bases with stiff leaf chiselled galleries -- 30¼in. (77cm.) high, probably formerley with candle branches. (2)

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A fine pair of Empire bronze and ormolu female Egyptian votive figures, early 19th century, wearing pharoic headdress, and with serpent entwined arms, the reverse with hieroglyph decorated columns, on rouge griotte plinths with inset rectangular plaques with chased masks, asps and ibis, the stepped bases with stiff leaf chiselled galleries -- 30¼in. (77cm.) high, probably formerley with candle branches. (2)

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These stylish bronze and ormolu figures designed in the Egyptian taste popularised after Napoleon's Nile campaign and the publication of Baron Vivant Denon's drawings of Egyptian Architecture and antiquities, reflect the early 19th century fashion for objects in the 'gout d'Egypt'.

A related pair, sold by Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1985, lot 205, are illustrated, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, Jonathen Bourne and Venessa Brett, Sotheby's Publications, 1991.