19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE CHENETS
19TH CENTURY
Each surmounted by a rearing horse on shaped plinths with c-scroll ornament and centred with a mask, originally with coat-of-arms within cartouche, almost certainly with the arms of Braunschweig for the Dukes of Brunswick, both with paper labels to the reverse inscribed in Italian (translated as) 'Coats-of-Arms of the Marquess' of Braunschweig has been removed Paris circa 1710...", later fitted for electricity
16½ in. (42 cm.) high; 9½ in. (24 cm.) wide (2)

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This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

This celebrated model was originally supplied to the Dukes of Braunschweig. A pair of chenets of this model was sold from the Segoura sale, Christie's New York, 19 October 2006, lot 63 ($28,000 plus premium). Another pair of this model of richly saddled horse, sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2002, lot 76, was mounted on wave-scrolled bases such as featured on related chenets but with Apollo's marine horses, as at Boughton House, Northamptonshire. The latter related to another pair, bearing the 'C' couronné poinçon, sold Sothebys Monaco, 15 June 1996, lot 157 (see also T. Murdoch ed, Boughton House, London, 1992, fig. 27).

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