Empire coffee set with Egyptian decor
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Empire coffee set with Egyptian decor, Manufacture Giustiniani, Naples, Italy, around 1820.
Courtesy of Johann Jacobs Museum
The decipherment of the hieroglyphs by Jean-François Champollion is one of the lasting achievements of Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign. But even Champollion would have cut his teeth on this Neapolitan sphinx.