A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BRONZE MODELS OF DOGS
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BRONZE MODELS OF DOGS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BRONZE MODELS OF DOGS
Each with a greyhound on stepped rounded rectangular base with panels to the sides and laurel swags to each end
7½ in. (19 cm.) long (2)
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The provenance for these greyhounds is the Collection of Eduard Arnhold, Berlin (d.1926), mentioned in the inventory of his collection in 1936 as circa 1775.

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A pair of greyhounds of identical design is depicted as a garniture on top of a chimney-piece in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration of 1807 (plate X) which shows the interior of his Duchess Street house (D. Watkin, Regency Furniture and Interior Decoration, New York, 1971, p. 39). A pair of Louis XVI ormolu chenets surmounted by the same greyhounds is in the Wrightsman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Greenwich, 1966, vol. II, p. 387, cat. 201 A and B).

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