23 Jan 2008
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Egyptian Revival Sale (Furniture and Works of Art)
Back to auction 15679
The Egyptian Revival Sale (Furniture and Works of Art)
Back to auction 15679
A large and impressive Egyptianising gilt-bronze and Bleu Turquin marble framed wall panel
Late 19th/ early 20th Century
The rectangular panel with fluted surround flanked by square paterae, centred by an octagonal frame with Bleu Turquin marble background mounted with Egyptian figures and scales depicting the God Anubis weighing the heart of the scribe Ani, surmounted by a pair of vultures in the field, flanked by lotus and papyrus flowers to each side, above panels of swimming fish and a snake, centred to the lower part by a further vulture with spreading wings, 75½in wide, 64½in high (193 x 164cm).
The rectangular panel with fluted surround flanked by square paterae, centred by an octagonal frame with Bleu Turquin marble background mounted with Egyptian figures and scales depicting the God Anubis weighing the heart of the scribe Ani, surmounted by a pair of vultures in the field, flanked by lotus and papyrus flowers to each side, above panels of swimming fish and a snake, centred to the lower part by a further vulture with spreading wings, 75½in wide, 64½in high (193 x 164cm).
Sold for
£7,200
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
By repute, presented to the Royal College of Physicians in the 1920s.
The scene is copied from a section of the scribe Ani's Book of the Dead, papyrus of the nineteenth Dynasty in the British Museum. It illustrates chapter 125 and is known as the Vignette of the Weighing of the Heart of the scribe Ani. It depicts Anubis, the jackal-headed God weighing the heart (in the jar on the left) of the deceased in a balance to see if he is worthy of entering the Field of Reeds (afterlife).
Category: Furniture / Fine Furniture and Works of Art
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