Lot 469
The "Rudoph Valentino" Egyptian Revival Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany Bedroom Suite, early 20th c., comprising a half tester bed, "Princess" dresser, bench, a pair of bedside stands, a dressing bureau, side chair and armchair; the bed tester with dentil molding and reeded swag brackets, fluted posts with lotus capitals and bronze collars, continuous headboard with a winged solar disk mount, an églomisé panel of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, molded rectangular rails, arched footboard flanked by fluted and chevron posts, turned feet; the princess dresser with arched central mirror and hinged flanking mirrors with reeded, snake mounted frames, pedestals of drawers flanking center low shelf; the bench with obelisk supports; bedside stands with square tops, frieze drawers tall legs; the dressing bureau of massive proportions, arched mirror crested with a mount of Nekhbet, two short and two long drawers; chairs with padded backs, cabriole legs; all variously mounted with pharaoh busts, solar disks and hieroglyphs, anity height 80 in., width 58 1/2 in., depth 28 1/2 in.; commode height 32 1/2 in., width 17 in., depth 17 in.; dressing bench height 24 1/2 in., width 28 1/2 in., depth 17 in.; bed height 96 in., length 84 in., width 68 in. Provenance: Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, sold as lot 2054, June 25, 2007.
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