Sphinx Antique

With the «Description of Egypt» appears in the decorative arts Egyptian patterns like sphinxes or pharaohs. This style lasts only a short time and is replaced by the Empire style.

The lower body is decorated with sphinxes, stylized foliage, scrollwork and a reed-and-ribbon pattern.

Roberts' travels in the Middle East had a profound impact on his art, and he produced a series of highly detailed and realistic paintings and sketches of the region's famous ruins an...

Roberts' travels in the Middle East had a profound impact on his art, and he produced a series of highly detailed and realistic paintings and sketches of the region's famous ruins an...

The decoration is molded with bas-reliefs and painted with scenes from antiquity, and with masks, garlands, winged sphinxes and stylized acanthus. The gilt painting, banding and bras...

Above are exceptional draped fabric designed ormolu mounts below the circular white enameled clock face with Roman numbers and pierced hands framed in a beautiful Coeur de Rai ormolu...

One shows a soldier with a Macedonian helmet with a sphinx-shaped crest, a breastplate moulding his shape and holding a shield.

This guard, which may be of iron, steel, copper, bronze, or silver, may be simple, or elaborately ornamented (often with patterns or heraldic ornaments, such as the fleur-de-lis, wit...

The initial Egyptian Revival period flourished from the 1820s onward, and was inspired by ancient Egyptian imagery, such as the scarab beetle, lotus flower, sphinxes, pharaohs, and ...

The clock is surmounted by a patinated bronze sphinx. Resting on four bronze faces wearing the nemes and terminating in lion paw feet.

A Flemish Renaissance Biblical Tapestry 16th century In an open architectural setting, the central crowned and enthroned female figure flanked by three handmaidens, a fourth to the l...

The furnishings were decorated with sphinxes, palmettes, caryatids, Egyptian profiles, not infrequently in symbiosis with Greco-Roman elements.

The initial Egyptian Revival period flourished from the 1820s onward, and was inspired by ancient Egyptian imagery, such as the scarab beetle, sphinxes, pharaohs, and hieroglyphics. ...

A Garniture de Cheminée in The Egyptian Manner Constructed in Algerian onyx and ormolu, comprising a large clock and two side pieces; rising from winged claw feet, the breakfront ...

The whole resting on sphinx feet set up on bronze bases. The candle branches issue from the female heads and terminate in winged dragon arms supporting the candle cups which are deco...

With square tapering legs and Sphinx style gilt metal mounts. Recently appraised and described as: English George III style mahogany sofa table in the manner of Thomas Chippendale th...

Another source of inspiration, like the French Empire style, is Egyptian art - due to Napoleon's Egyptian campaign - especially in the use of sphinxes. The chairs have so-called "sab...

The lapis throughout is mounted with gilt bronze elements: the front of the base is set with rinceaux motifs, the clock drum is encompassed by a gilt bronze band and draped below wit...

Ornamental Pompeian Style With Sphinx from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Ferdinando Campana in the 18th Century.

The initial Egyptian Revival period flourished from the 1820s onward, and was inspired by ancient Egyptian imagery, such as the scarab beetle, sphinxes, pharaohs, and hieroglyphics. ...

That is when he painted the present beautiful view of the pyramids of Gizeh and the Sphinx.

"Bronze Trepied Pour Sacrifice", Fig. 120 A beautiful tripod with three lion-footed legs capped by a seated sphinx and adorned with decorative arabesques and bearded heads of Jupiter...

Like the original console, this guéridon features additional bronzes upon the stretcher but rather than a flaming urn, as on the original, there is a covered urn and again instead of...

The stretcher centred by an urn flanked by winged sphinx and raised on ball feet. The design for this important table is derived from the 'console double face' supplied in 1808 b...

The walnut case, of architectural form, is supported on the original bracket, being carved with ribbands, anthemions and pylons in the Egyptian manner, surmounted by a triangulated p...

Rare Pair of 19th Century Italian Baroque Style Mythological Figures table lamps The tripod bases with scroll feet featuring classical sphinx figures each carry a male and female my...

This piece of furniture is supported by two very richly sculpted winged sphinxes surrounding a central medallion adorned with a bacchanal scene, and stands on a moulded plinth and he...

The legs are edged with parcel gilt light blue paterae (medallion motifs) and they are linked by a circular band, decorated with blue rosettes and a gilt Greek key pattern. Pink-wing...

Typical Empire motifs included the sphinx, acanthus leaves, anthemions (stylised honeysuckle), animal-paw feet, cornucopia, classical figures, lyres and rosettes.

Brass lion's and leopard's feet, sphinx heads and paws, lotuses and palms, scarabs, winged globes, and plyon forms were often employed in furniture especially in France where the Emp...

Additionally, the allegorical figure of Liverpool, featuring a girl with a sphinx, is prominently displayed at the summit of the Walker Art Gallery.

The front with a panel chased with nymphs supporting a globe with Cupid standing on top; below are two sphinx, their bodies covered in drapery. Bands of beading run down the angles o...

Bailly, who retired in 1818 had the responsibility of maintaining the clocks at Compiègne and the Trianons and is known to have used cases by the leading Parisian bronziers including...

A crossing adorned with interlaces and rosettes supports a set of 5 baluster shape columns decorated of gadroons and ropes, joined the “fan”, side parts carved in shape of two S shap...

The girandoles stand on three fluted feet, which support triangular-shaped bases. Three sphinxes, wearing foliate crowns, rest on the projecting parts of each base, their tails formi...

Marble tops were popular as were Egyptian motifs like sphinxes, griffins, urns and eagles and the Napoleonic symbols, the eagle, the bee, the initials "I" and a large "N."

**SPHÉCODINE d'abbot**: This could be a species within the Sphingidae family (hawk moths), with "d'abbot" possibly referring to the Abbot's Sphinx moth. 7. **PTÉROGON de l'énothère*...

Bestial inspired paws hold the plinth off the ground; references to mythology and animals are further reflected in the candelabra, which are decorated and with Egyptian Revival sphin...

Other royal commissions followed, for instance he supplied gilt bronze chenets with flaming urns and sphinxes for the Louvre in 1786. Having assisted in the making of the mounts for ...

This unique little scent bottle checks all the boxes of the era and special circumstances - an ornate cartouche lid accented with turquoise, the double sided hand-painted examples of...

A French silvered-bronze athénienne by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, last quarter 19th century with a revolving liner, the frieze applied with bucrania suspending ribbon-tied berried...

It was reworked in 1806, when the drawing room was decorated (and presumably furnished) in the Egyptian style, including the upper part of the walls divided into panel with a border ...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

Marble tops were popular as were Egyptian motifs like sphinxes, griffins, urns and eagles and the Napoleonic symbols, the eagle, the bee, the initials "I" and a large "N."

The woman stands on a cuboid clock case and is accompanied, on the shoulders of the clock body, by two gilt bronze sphinxes. At the centre of the black marble clock case, there is a ...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

In addition, the Cuban sphinx moth has been named Erinnyis merianae, a Tessaratomidae bug has been named Plisthenes merianae, a genus of mantises has been named Sibylla, the orchid b...

Each candelabra has a central stem in the form of a torch en flambeau with three scrolling acanthus reeded branches terminating in sphinx heads and palm-leaf candleholders. The arms ...

The H-shaped plinth centered on an urn flanked by sphinxes. The original model of this table formed part of the furnishings of the bedroom of Caroline Murat at the Elysee Palace ...

Klimt’s living Venus stands in front of the large bust and large classical pillar upon which is a sculpture of a Sphinx and a Greek Attic bust. As if a gallery to represent sculpture...

Museum and Gallery Holdings: Antwerp: Woman in Despair; A Parisian Sphinx; Authorised Begging Boston: The Attentive Listener Brussels: Lady in Pink; Ladybird; Salome; Widow and her C...

Hébert often adjusted his style to historical subject: severe neo-Greek handling in his Thetis, Oracle, and Oedipus and the Sphinx; and stylized and rigid neo-Egyptian handling in hi...

Suspended from this floral centrepiece is a Sphinx, gracefully culminating in an inverted pyramid pendant, flanked on either side by the figures of winged Eros.

Middle Eastern 19th century large scale Jewish Egyptian finely hand etched brass memorial bowl decorated with medallions with Hebrew inscriptions, pyramids, sphinx, and human figures...