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463 - ATTRIBUTED TO ACHILLE-CONSTANT-THÉODORE-ÉMILE PRISSE D’AVENNES (FRENCH, 1807–1879) WATERCOLOUR WITH TRACES OF GRAPHITE, an Egyptian kounafeh (vermicelli) maker and his assistant, Cairo preparing cakes at a stone basin, with his seated assistant smoking a long pipe at the doorway, a large pottery vessel and utensils arranged before them. Inscribed in pencil verso, ‘Kounafeh / or / Vermicelli maker – Cairo’, with further numbers.
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ATTRIBUTED TO ACHILLE-CONSTANT-THÉODORE-ÉMILE PRISSE D’AVENNES (FRENCH, 1807–1879) WATERCOLOUR WITH TRACES OF GRAPHITE, an Egyptian kounafeh (vermicelli) maker and his assistant, Cairo preparing cakes at a stone basin, with his seated assistant smoking a long pipe at the doorway, a large pottery vessel and utensils arranged before them. Inscribed in pencil verso, ‘Kounafeh / or / Vermicelli maker – Cairo’, with further numbers. Sheet 31cm x 26.7cm Sight 20.2cm x 26cm Frame 36.5cm x 42.5cm Provenance: Private collection. Note: The composition corresponds closely with An Egyptian Baker and His Assistant at the Door of a Cake-Shop, circa 1830–40, an oil painting in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. SD.857), where the composition is attributed to Émile Prisse d’Avennes.
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