A PAIR OF ORMOLU CHENETS

IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU CHENETS
In the Louis XVI style, 19th Century
Each with a garlanded lyre with a berried finial and flanked by bacchic masks, on paw feet, the concave base with a lion mask flanked by a panelled band and a garlanded foliate support with flaming finial, each with cast-iron back supports with square finial
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high; 17½ in. (43½ cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

These impressive chenets are based on the celebrated model, probably designed by Jacques Gondoin, dessinateur des mobilier de la Couronne, of which examples were supplied by the bronzier Claude-Jean Pitoin to M.de Fontanieu in 1777 and to Marie Antoinette in 1779. A pair of this model in the Louvre is illustrated in P.Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés François de XVIIIe Siécle, Paris, 1987, p.284, figs 317-9

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