Relief: two servants bearing food and drink – Achaemenid – Achaemenid – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/323178
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 32, fig. 49.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 32, fig. 49.
Georg (II), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen, Thuringia (by 1897–d. 1914); Bernhard (III), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen (1914–d. 1928); Georg, Prinz von Saxe-Meiningen, Heldbourg, Thuringia (1928–29; sold to Douglas); [R
Jena, Germany, 1909, p. 168, ill. following p. 168.
The Hague, 1924, p. 378, attributes it to Daddi. Richard Offner.
Lucerne: Verlag Räber & Cie, 1964. no. 28, p. 16.
Dimensions: Overall (a: cope): 58 × 122 1/2 in. (147.3 × 311.1 cm) Overall (b:
The artist’s brother-in-law, Léon Appert, Paris (in 1892); Félix Fénéon, Paris (by 1904–at least 1909); [Stephan Bourgeois, New York, by 1916–at least 1918]; Adolph Lewisohn, New York (1919–d
The Arts 9 (June 1926), p. 304, ill. p. 309. Stephan Bourgeois.
Purchased from Eustache de Lorey, Paris, 1934; continuously exhibited and frequently published since that time; included in interational exhibition Cleopatra’s Egypt, Brooklyn and Munich, 1988, and La Gloire d’Alexandrie, Paris 1998
View #1 front right profile left rear left profile b&w, detail of King, right
This imposing picture, one of Fei’s most accomplished, is completely intact, with its original engaged frame richly decorated with gilded pastiglia and small cabochon stones alternating with medallions of verre églomisé (see Eisler 1961 for a discussion of this technique)
Oxford, 1932, p. 183. [F.