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clock in the egyptian style, ca. 1800
Another eclectic tour de forcein Thomas Hope’s Duchess Street house was the “Flaxman or Star Room,” created for John Flaxman’s 1790 marble group Aurora and Cephalus. Standing on a table, this clock was “carried by the figure of the goddess Isis, or the moon, adorned with her crescent.”
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Bank of England. Perspective of the 3% Consols Office,
Sir John Soane |
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clock in the egyptian style
Thomas Hope |
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design for a doorway to the grand gallery of the villa albani
Carlo Marchionni |
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design for a table with monopods, plate 38 in recueil des décorations intérieures
Charles Percier & Pierre-Francois-Léonard Fontaine |
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Design for the Cardinals’ Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
Peter Eisenman |
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design for two andirons and a sconce of gilt bronze for the pavilion de bagatelle, paris
Jean-Démosthéne Dugourc |
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Doncaster Race Cup
Rebecca Emes and Edward Barnard |
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Egyptian or Black room, duchess street, london, from household furniture and interior decoration, 1807
Giovanni Battista Piranesi |
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Episcopal Academy Chapel
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates |
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Project for a Metropole
Etienne-Louis Boullée |
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Section of the long side of entrance hall at Syon House, Middlesex, in Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, Vol. II
Gift of the James Smithson Society |
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sepulcher in egyptian style with caryatids and a lion
Louis-Jean Desprez |
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Temple of Justice
Jean-Charles Delafosse |
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view of consuls transfer office for the bank of england
Joseph Michael Gandy |
