Egyptian Style Painted Carved Wall Plaque

Egyptian style (20th Century) stripped and painted wall plaque with 2 rearing bulls. Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use

"Egyptian Revival style (mid-20th Cent) terra cotta figure of a stylized dog (chips and losses to snout) chips and losses to snout"

A Continental porcelain Egyptian revival plaque in a giltwood Egytomainia decorated frame. Norther European marked CH? Burger. Possibly German?.

Exquisite decorative architectural element, a wall hanging of generous scale. Sand cast bronze, with old verdigris patination and painstaking detail to the composition, the scales and twin heads of Horus. The energy expressed in beautiful coiled, tensile form. Bronze castings have a long tradition in Berlin, the most renown being the Aktien-Gesellschaft Gladenbeck that operated from 1851 until 1926. Horus, a god in the form of a falcon whose right eye was the sun or morning star, representing power and quintessence, and whose left eye was the moon or evening star, representing healing. Falcon cults, which were in evidence from late predynastic times, were widespread in Egypt. This coiled serpent form is equally reminiscent of Nehebkau a primordial snake god in ancient Egyptian mythology. Ultimately considered a powerful, benevolent and protective deity, he is described as a companion of the sun god Re. Egyptian revival: Egyptian culture first enchanted the West when Cleopatra captured the hearts of legendary Romans Julius Caesar...