A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CHENETS

29TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO LAMBERT-SIGISBERT-ADAM SLODTZ

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE CHENETS
29th Century, after a design attributed to Lambert-Sigisbert-Adam Slodtz
Of Louis XV style, each with a figure of Neptune, bearded and blowing into his shell horn, seated and reclining on an asymmetrical scrolled and foliate pierced base, the reverse of one Neptune figure as well as the ormolu base marked with the letters 'A' and 'X', the reverse of the second Neptune marked with the letter 'L', both ormolu bases with erased three-figure mark
16 in. (41 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

By repute Ivar Kreuger.
Consul General Karl Bergsten (d. 1953).

Literature

Generalkonsul och Fru Karl Bergstens Fregaaende Kataloger ver deras Konstsammling, Stockholm, 1950, plate XXXIV 4.

Lot Essay

A pair of chenets of identical design is 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 Muse du Louvre by Ren Fribourg in 1963.

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