MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU CHENETS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each depicting a 'mendiant', one modelled as a young boy playing a musical box, the other as a young girl holding a box enclosing a small animal, on a pierced scrolling rocaille base with a trellis motif, issuing floral branches
16 ¼ in. (41.5 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) wide; 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

These 'mendiant' children were evidently a fashionable motif for 18th century Rococo chenets being found on a number of other examples but with different rocaille bases, and include: a pair, sold 'Property from the Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and the Antique Company of New York', Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2007, lot 203; a pair sold Sotheby's, Paris, 29 March 2007, lot 41, and another pair sold 'Segoura', Christie's, New York, 19 October 2006, lot 213.

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