2-751-342 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Bouquet capital', Thebes, Egypt, (1928). 'So-called bouquet capitals (papyrus clusters, lilies, nymphaea) as depicted on wall paintings and made of wood...1400 B.C...From the tomb of Haremheb, a general under Tethmosis IV (1420-1411 B. C.)'. After Prisse D'Avennes. Plate V, fig 15, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]