A pair of French ormolu chenets

IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, IN THE MANNER OF FRANCOIS REMOND, CAST BY BOUHON & CIE, PARIS, CIRCA 1880

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A pair of French ormolu chenets
In the Louis XVI Style, In the manner of Francois Remond, Cast by Bouhon & Cie, Paris, Circa 1880
Each with a female herm with scrolling vine-wrapped tail, on a moulded plinth base, with panelled apron cast with a central Apollo-mask flanked by laurel scrolls, with sunburst panels to each end, on lapetted and spirally gadrooned tapering legs, each stamped BOUHON FRERES and E in various places, and with two later cast-iron bars
14 in. (36 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) high; 4 in. (10 cm.) deep
The cast-iron bar: 27 in. (57 cm.) long (2)

Lot Essay

With their wine-wrapped acanthus leaf issuing from a herm, these chenets relate to the design by Franois Rmond of Circa 1780 for a pair of 'Feux Lamballe' executed for Marie-Thrse, Princesse de Lamballe (H. Ottomeyer P. Proschel et. al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 279, fig. 4.12.3).
Bronziers, the Bouhon brothers or Bouhon et Cie specialised in bronze-decorated fire-places and fire-fittings. The firm participated in the 1878 and 1900 Paris Expositions Universelles.

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