Lot Essay
A similar stove with virtually identical decoration to the chimney pipe is in the Château de Montgeoffroy (Maine-et-Loire) and is illustrated in P. Verlet, The 18th Century in France, 1967, p.41, fig. 25.
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A MATCHED PAIR OF CONTINENTAL TIN-GLAZED EARTHENWARE STOVES
Each with bombé base with central cartouche flanked by foliage and scrolls with a central cast-iron hinged stove door on a shaped plinth, issuing a palm-tree form chimney pipe naturalistically modelled with leaves, one with a spiraling grape vine, the other with a dog chasing a rabbit with trailing oak leaves and acorns, each crested by spreading palm fronds (restorations and replacements)--91½in. (231cm.) high, 35¼in. (89.5cm.) wide; the second 92½in. (235cm.) high, 38in. (96.5cm.) wide (2)
Each with bombé base with central cartouche flanked by foliage and scrolls with a central cast-iron hinged stove door on a shaped plinth, issuing a palm-tree form chimney pipe naturalistically modelled with leaves, one with a spiraling grape vine, the other with a dog chasing a rabbit with trailing oak leaves and acorns, each crested by spreading palm fronds (restorations and replacements)--91½in. (231cm.) high, 35¼in. (89.5cm.) wide; the second 92½in. (235cm.) high, 38in. (96.5cm.) wide (2)