Michael Lake
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Lot 156
After Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert (French, 1828-1893): A pair of gilt and patinated bronze busts of 'Isis' and 'Ramses'probably retailed by George Servant
21 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,250 inc. premium
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After Pierre-Eugène-Émile Hébert (French, 1828-1893): A pair of gilt and patinated bronze busts of 'Isis' and 'Ramses'
probably retailed by George Servant
the male and female Egyptian style busts depicting the Pharaoh and his Queen, each signed to the side EMILE HERBERT on tapering square socles and raised on conforming black and rouge marble stepped plinth bases with winged scarab inset mounts inscribed in gilt RAMES and ISIS,
52cm and 51cm high approximately (2)
the male and female Egyptian style busts depicting the Pharaoh and his Queen, each signed to the side EMILE HERBERT on tapering square socles and raised on conforming black and rouge marble stepped plinth bases with winged scarab inset mounts inscribed in gilt RAMES and ISIS,
52cm and 51cm high approximately (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired by a private UK collector, Sotheby's, London, 23 November 1990, 19th Century Sculpture, lot 200.
Émile Hébert was one of the few sculptors to work with the renowned bronze fondeur Georges Servant, and their artistic collaboration resulted in pieces of the Neo-Grecian and Egyptian Revival style.
A similar clock garniture with the busts forming the garniture ornaments was sold in The Andy Warhol Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 29-30 April, 1988, lot 3263.