A pair of bronze and parcel gilt chenet, modelled with figures of sphinxes, on rectangular stepped plinths with decorated with urns of flowers hung with swags -- 9¼in. (23.5cm.) high. (2)

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A pair of bronze and parcel gilt chenet, modelled with figures of sphinxes, on rectangular stepped plinths with decorated with urns of flowers hung with swags -- 9¼in. (23.5cm.) high. (2)

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The design of the present chenet is based around a model by Antoine-André Ravio, 1805. Musée national du Chatâteau de Fontainebleau Catalogue des collections de mobilier, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris 1989. Illustrated page 253, fig. 250.

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