OF LOUIS XV STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

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A pair of French ormolu chenets
OF LOUIS XV STYLE, 19TH CENTURY
Modelled with the figures of a Chinese man and woman with a parrot
37 cm. high x 42 cm. wide x 83 cm. deep (2)

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Lot Essay

The firedogs (chenets) comprise tripods, scrolled and foliated in the 'picturesque' manner, and providing a perch for a Chinese gardener while listening to parrots. They derive from a pattern thought to have been invented for Madame de Pompadour's apartments at her Château de Bellevue.
Dreyfus, Musée du Louvre, Les Objets d'Art du XVIII Siecle: Epoque Louis XV, Paris, n.d., fig. 3 and Daniel Alcouffe, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum and Gérard Mabille, Gilt bronzes in the Louvre, Dijon, 2004, p. 66, ill. 27

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