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in British furnishings. The book inspired a generation of fashionable English homeowners to install parlor suites featuring chairs, tables and sofas in shapes that evoked the objects depicted on Egyptian tomb paintings.
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dress decorated with lotus flower that are inspired by those found in Ancient Egyptian decoration, by Jenny (couturier) and Lesage (embroiderer), 1926, silk, metallic thread, and crocheted embroidery,
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Bed from 'Nouveaux modèles de Tentures (Bibliothèque de l'Ameublement)', 1875–1885, color lithography, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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is a style in Western art, mainly of the early nineteenth century, in which Egyptian motifs were applied to a wide variety of
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to display his Egyptian antiquities, and illustrated in engravings from his meticulous line drawings in his book,
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in 1798. Napoleon took a scientific expedition with him to Egypt. Publication of the expedition's work, the
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Table, 1775–1780, wood, carved, painted, and partly gilded, and black granite top not original to table,
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Six-light candelabrums with stands, by Alexis Decaix, 1802–1806, gilt bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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When London and Paris Looked to the Nile for Inspiration, Wendy Moonan, July 11, 2008, New York Times
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Enthusiasm for the artistic style of Ancient Egypt is generally attributed to the excitement over
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Thomas Hope: Regency Designer, A Curatorial Interpretation of the Egyptian Room at Duchess Street
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Glass case with lotus columns at each corner, unknown maker, late 19th century, wood and glass,
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The Egyptian Revival: Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West,
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Armchair, 1870–1875, rosewood and prickly juniper veneer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Necklace with scarabs, by Giacinto Melillo, late 19th–early 20th century, gold,
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Center table, 1870–1875, rosewood, walnut and marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Egyptian revival : its sources, monuments, and meaning, 1808–1858,
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Later discoveries prompted further revivals, with the discovery of
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and, in Britain, to Admiral Nelson's defeat of Napoleon at the
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Frame detail of The Death of the Pharaoh's Firstborn Son by
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Signet with pharaoh head and Egyptian Revival motifs,
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1885, marble and bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Egyptian revival decorative arts

François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
mahogany
Swietenia mahagoni
Metropolitan Museum of Art
decorative arts
Napoleon's conquest of Egypt
Battle of the Nile
Description de l'Égypte
Duchess Street
Thomas Hope
Regency style
Tutankhamun
Art Deco
Canopic jar, by Wedgwood, c.1773, earthenware and encaustic, Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Wedgwood
Brooklyn Museum
Table, 1775–1780, wood, carved, painted, and partly gilded, and black granite top not original to table, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Six-light candelabrums with stands, by Alexis Decaix, 1802–1806, gilt bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Empire style vase with pedestal, 1804–1806, varnished sheet and gilded bronze, Louvre
Empire style
gilded bronze
Louvre
Potpourri vase with pseudo-hieroglyphs, by the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, c.1810, porcelain (painted & partially gilded), Neues Museum, Berlin
Potpourri
Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
Neues Museum
Signet with pharaoh head and Egyptian Revival motifs, c.1810, bronze, Neues Museum

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