A PARIS PORCELAIN BUST OF AN EGYPTIAN LADY EARLY 19TH CENTURY

modelled wearing a falcon headdress over an echeloned wig of ringlets partially obscuring a beaded gilt carcanet around her neck.

There are five firing cracks extending from the center of the base, one running up her right breast to the necklace; another, factory-filled one, running up her left shoulder; the third running up her back into her hair; the fourth, filled and running up to her right shoulder; the fifth crack does not extend beyond the edge of the base. The headpiece, which would have supported an element of a piece of furniture, has a filled hole in the center, where the furniture would have been inserted. There are several restored chips around the edge of the hairdress. Some minor wear to the gilding of the necklace.
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These figures are adapted from a design circa 1800 by Charles Percier ([1764-1838], who with Pierre Fontaine [1762-1853] formulated the Empire style), who originally conceived them as supporting elements of a piece of Egyptian-style furniture. A related Egyptian-style console table with figural supports, circa 1802, is in the Grand Trianon at Versailles, and illustrated by Jean-Marcel Humbert, L'Égyptomanie dans l'art Occidental, p. 128.