A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU CHENETS

19TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU CHENETS
19TH CENTURY
Depicting Venus and Vulcan on eagles, each base with four scrolled supports terminating in griffins' heads, with sticker '0132' to reverse, one slightly indistinguishable
15 ½ in. (39.3 cm.) high, 11 in. (27.9 cm.) wide, 9 in. (22.8 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 1993, lot 86.

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Lot Essay

These impressively sculptural chenets are based on the examples attributed to André-Charles Boulle in the Grüne Galerie in the Residenz, Munich, which were supplied around 1720 (see H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp. 70-1, no. 1.10.9).

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