A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU CHENETS

20TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO LAMBERT-SIGISBERT-ADAM SLODTZ

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU CHENETS
20th Century, after a design attributed to Lambert-Sigisbert-Adam Slodtz
Each modelled as Neptune blowing a conch shell, supported on a C-scroll and acanthus-cast bases, one stamped 5 and S, and the other J and S, regilt
15¾in. (40cm.) high, 16¾in. (42.5cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of chenets of very similar 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 Musée du Louvre by René Fribourg in 1963.

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