Pair of Louis XVI Style Andirons in Patinated and Gilt Bronze Decor

Pair of Louis XVI gilt bronze andirons cast with scrolling foliate design and florettes, each upon four paw feet. Dimensions: Each: 14.25" H x 10.5" W x 5.25" D. Dealer: S138XX.

Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19/20th Century) gilt bronze andirons with a lyre centered between two acorn finials (with a double iron shank) (PRICED AS Pair)

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...

Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze andirons/chenets with centered urn having festoons through each side handle with a flame finial top. (PRICED AS Pair)

Pair of French Louis XVI style bronze dore double urn and festoon design andirons.

Pair of French Louis XVI-style (19th Century) bronze dore flame top andirons with winged cupid. (PRICED AS Pair)