Pair of Gilt Bronze Chenets

A superb pair of gilt bronze chenets. Very fine detail. France, circa 1860 Dimensions: Height 20 1/4", width 11 1/2", depth 6 1/2" CW4487.

A very fine Ormolu mounted opaline pair of Urns raised on Octagonal plinths. CW5200.

A Very important pair of gilt bronze mounted Vert des Alpes marble urns, now fitted as lamps in the Louis XVI taste, on socle plinths with square bases. France, circa 1920. Dimension...

A very fine pair of gilt bronze chenets depicting a boy and a little girl warming up their hands by the fire. Exquisite quality. Dimensions: Height 12", width 10", depth 5" CW4720.

Pair of gilt bronze lamps resting on marble plinths. France, circa 1920. Dimensions: Height 33" Diameter 8 1/2" CW3757.

Fine and elegant pair of gilt bronze wall sconces with three lights

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...

Each with a different flying dragon raised on a scrolling base ending in a flaming urn.

Pair of antique French Rococo style gilt and patinated monumental bronze chenets/andirons with celestial globe applied with stars and extensive gilt bronze oak leaf decoration. Of mo...

These very large and substantial pair of figural patinated and gilt bronze chenets are unsigned, but presumed to have been made in France in circa 1850 in the Louis XVI style. These ...

A large and impressive pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze chenets showing applied lyre shaped elements fronting torchere shaped co...

Pair of Louis XV Ormolu Andirons, depicting a seated gallant with a guitar and his companion, each with a dog looking up and rocaille scrolling. with log rests (dimensions include th...