Striking Pair Gilt Metal French Rococo Greek Sphinx Fireplace Chenets Andirons

Pair of Victorian Egyptian Revival Bronze & Rouge Marble Sphinx Candle Holders From a private English collection Good condition. Free international shipping.

Pair of Louis XVI Revival Gilt Bronze Marble Pear Shaped Cassolette Vases Dating to late 19th century From a private collection Free international shipping.

Pair of Neoclassical Gilt Glass Vases Good condition Free international shipping.

Victorian Pair of Rococo Polychrome Putti Cherubs Porcelain Candlesticks 19th Century Good condition overall, as seen. Free international shipping.

Limoges French Gilt Porcelain Planter Jardiniere Vase Good condition Free international shipping.

Rococo Polychrome Giltwood Convex Mirror Good condition Free international shipping.

Pair of 19th century French Louis XVI neo-classical style gilt bronze chenets or andirions. Finely detailed including urn draped forms and lion paws.

An antique pair of French Rococo fireplace chenets offers gilt cast bronze construction in exaggerated foliate form with gadroon elements, 19th...

Pair of Louis XV Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Cherub Fireplace Andirons or Chenets A pair of stunning opposing Cherub Louis XV Style Gilt and P...

Pair of fine antique French cast brass Rococo style chenet or andirons.

A pair of early 20th century highly decorative bronze ormolu (gilt metal) chenets in the Rococo style. These Chenets or fire dogs are in the typical Rococo design of scrolling fol...

Each with a recumbent winged sphinx with scrolling foliate arabesques to their back, upon a bow-ended rectangular gadrooned plinth, the frieze with a panel applied with entrelacs, on fluted toupie feet. Several models of chenets with sphinx exist, dating from the 1780s. An example with winged sphinxes with headresses and with female mask centering the frieze, attributed to either Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe Thomire, exists in several versions in the Louvre, Versailles and the Cleveland Museum of Art (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.276, fig. 4.11.14.). This model is based on a drawing by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated op. cit., fig. 4.11.13. Another type of sphinx chenet...