A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU CHENETS

Details

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU CHENETS
19TH CENTURY

After a design by Jean-Charles Delafosse, each with a fluted stiff-leaf cast classical urn en flambeau banded with Vitruvian scrolls and hung with berried laurel swags with scattered trophies emblematic of the Arts and Sciences respectively, on a shaped panelled fluted pedestal with berried laurel swag, leaf-tip banding and stop-fluted tapering foot-17½in. (44cm.) high, 14¾in. (38cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 7 May 1983, lot 51

Literature

H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröchel,Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I, pp. 422-423, fig. 6.3.6.

Lot Essay

These chenets are inspired by an engraved design of Jean Charles Delafosse published in his Nouvelle Iconologie Historique from 1768 onward. Another example of this model is in the St. Louis Art Museum illustrated in Ottomeyer & Pröschel, op. cit.