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Pair of Gilt Bronze Period Louis XVI Chenets

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  • Pair of Louis XVI Gilt and Patinated Bronze Sphinx Chenets
    Located in Kittery Point, ME
    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...
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    Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Andirons

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  • Impressive Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Chenets, France Circa 1900
    Located in Ottawa, Ontario
    A large and impressive pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze chenets showing applied lyre shaped elements fronting torchere shaped co...
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    Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Andirons

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  • A Pair of Louis XVI Doré and Patinated Bronze Chenets
    Located in Norwood, NJ
    A pair of Louis XVI style gilt and patinated bronze Chenets/Andirons. Fine quality pair of 19th century Louis XVI Style French chenets. Doré and patinated bronze. Fine casting. Found...
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  • Pair 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Chenets
    Located in Houston, TX
    A highly stylized pair of 19th Century Louis XVI style gilt bronze chenets featuring torchier, arrow quivers, and rose garlands.
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  • French Louis XVI-Style Bronze Chenets
    Located in New Orleans, LA
    This wonderful pair of Louis XVI-style bronze chenets features patinated, cloaked cherub figures seated on ornate gilt bronze plateau and keeping t...
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  • Rare Pair of Louis XIV Gilt Bronze Andirons 'Chenets'
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    Each with a different flying dragon raised on a scrolling base ending in a flaming urn.
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