拍品 551
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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND BRONZE EXTENDING FENDER
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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND BRONZE EXTENDING FENDER

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY AND REGILDED

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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND BRONZE EXTENDING FENDER
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY AND REGILDED
With pierced gilt trellis fender mounted with rosettes and stars, the breakfront end-sections surmounted with recumbent lions and applied with Apollo in his chariot, the lions possibly originally patinated
10¼ in. (17 cm.) high approx.; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide approx. but adjustable
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品专文

A related feu a galerie with recumbent lioness at each end, as well as a feu with pierced axe-head motif like the present example, both formed part of Général Moreau's Consulat furnishings in the rue d'Anjou by 1804. Now at Fontainebleau, both are discussed in J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, nos. 266 and 261.