Mahogany collector's chest of drawers, opening with two doors on the top revealing a display case and two side drawers, decorated on its four sides with a frieze of hieroglyphic symbols in gilt bronze on a blue background by Giuseppe Parvis
Italy end of the XIXth century
Giuseppe Parvis ( 1831 - 1900)
After studying at the Academia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin (Piedmont). He arrived in Cairo in 1859, where he created, from the beginning of the 1860s, Arabian and antiquisite furniture, often made from antique elements. He quickly gained international fame, thanks to the Universal or International Exhibitions of Paris in 1867, Philadelphia in 1876, Milan in 1881 and Turin in 1884, for which he created an "Egyptian room" decorated with sphinx-shaped statues, as well as the "Egyptian-style living room".
As the official supplier of the khedives, he decorated their palaces (especially that of Abdine). As "supplier of the court", he quickly became essential in Cairo. He died in 1909, and his tomb in Turin reuses a red granite sarcophagus from the Old Kingdom.
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