A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU CHENETS

CIRCA 1720

Details

A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU CHENETS
CIRCA 1720
Each in the form of a spread-winged dragon seated atop a scroll-form base cast with trailing foliage, raised on leafy scroll-form feet, one with inscribed leather label 2810, fixing bolts to secure dragon to base repositioned
11½ in. (29 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 11-12 November 1966, lot 250.

Lot Essay

With their spread-winged dragons, these chenets are related to designs by the sculptor and designer Nicolas Pineau (1684-1754), and specifically here to a drawing of a similarly-rendered wall-light in the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin and published in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 66, fig. 1.9.19.

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