Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Lion Chenets or Andirons

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 striking and superbly cast pair of Louis XVI period gilt bronze fireplace andirons (chenets), dating to circa 1780 and attributed to Parisian workshops of the highest caliber. Thes...

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...

This exquisite pair of antique chenets/ andirons was realized in France in the late 19th century. They represent an excellent example of the period. Created in a lustrous dore bronze, they feature rococo designs throughout and immaculately polished Italian green marble orbs at the center. The faces of two Greek revival female faces adorns the center panel between the two legs. Flanked by two scroll forms, she wears a pearl headpiece...

Pair of antique French gilt and patinated figural lion form 19th century chenets. In the Rococo style, with full figure lions. Finely sculpted raised lions resting on Rococo shield f...

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...

Pair of antique (late 19th to early 20th century) andirons (chenets), finely sculpted and cast in bronze with gilt and patinated surfaces, depicting Cupid beside a flaming torch. 11...

19th century pair of chenets or andirons with cherubs and lions motif ending on claw feet.

A fine pair of antique French Louis XVI style doré bronze chenets of exquisite workmanship embellished with neoclassical urns adorned with flames representing fire in original doré b...

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...