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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CHENETS
Lot 104THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 103 & 104)

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CHENETS

OF LOUIS XV, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed15 March 2012

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CHENETS
OF LOUIS XV, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with a figure of Neptune seated on an asymmetric base cast with scrolls and acanthus foliage
14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (27 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

These chenets are after a design attributed to Lambert-Sigisbert Adam. A pair of the same model are in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, vol. II, p. 376), while a further pair was bequeathed to the Musée du Louvre by Ren Fribourg in 1963.