Name of Object:

Egyptianising plate

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Holding Institution:

The British Museum

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Date of Object:

1804–5

Inventory Number:

19930610.1

Provenance:

France

Description:

Plate with Egyptianising motifs and a copy of a drawing by Dominique Vivant Denon, Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte, 1802. Part of an Egyptian Service. Said to have been one of 3 Sevres plates which were thrown out of the windows of the Tuileries during the Revolution of 1848.

Citation of this web page:

"Egyptianising plate" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;uk;29;en;N

MWNF Working Number: UK 029