AFTER THE MODEL BY THOMIRE, 19TH CENTURY

This design of sphinx is almost identical to a pair of bronze and parcel-gilt sphinxes designed by Pierre-Philippe Thomire circa 1805 for a fender, see H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 341, fig. 5.4.6.