A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CHENETS

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CHENETS
CIRCA 1770

Each cast with a neo-classic vessel en flambeau draped with oak leaf swags above a shaped rectangular plinth cast with a fluted columnar support issuing further scrolling oak leaves surmounted by a pine-cone finial, above a conforming similarly banded plinth-18½in. (47cm.) high, 15in. (38cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 23 June 1988, lot 117

Lot Essay

A virtually identical pair of chenets from the Collection of James de Rothschild was sold Palais Gallieria, Paris, 1 December 1966, lot 69.
Another pair is in the château de Fontainebleau where it was described in 1804 as a 'paire de forte chenets à vases et cassolettes en cuivre doré' (Jean-Paul Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, 1989, p. 215, no. 201).