Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Canessa Collection of Rare and Valuable Objects of Art of the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Gothic and Renaissance Periods
The other ancient objects comprise examples of Etruscan. Roman and Egyptian art, each section including some notable pieces. Among which may be specially mentioned two fine Roman portrait busts, Nos. 55 and 57, and a bust in rock crystal of an Egyptian king of the eighteenth dynasty, No. 19.
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