CIRCA 1785, PROBABLY MODELLED BY THE SCULPTEUR JEAN HAURÉ AND ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE

A pair of chenets of this model, perhaps the first to be made and described as being decorated with ornements arabesques d'où sort un enfant qui se chauffe, was purchased in 1786 by Jean Hauré from the founder Turpin à l'entré du Fbg. S.-Antoine. They were gilded by Claude Galle and placed in the Grand Cabinet of the Salon des Nobles de la Reine at Versailles. In all likelihood, the sculptor Hauré was probably the designer of this model and supervised the work for the Royal pair.
Other examples of this model, with some variations, are in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (catalogue, no. 373, illustrated p. 72 in the Petit Bureau) and in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (anonymous loan).