Stunning Pair of Early Louis XVI French Bronze Chenets with Recumbent Sphinx

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning medium sized bronze statue of two Chinese men on a solid green soapstone base signed Aug Mariton. A very decorative and good sized p...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare pair of original hand carved from solid walnut J Rozec signed portraits of a fisherman and his wife A very good looking and high...

Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of early 20th century bronze statues of Recumbent Lions resting with balls under their pa...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely hand carved antique Rootwood statue of the wonderful Buddha A very fine example, the expression on Buddhas face is very serene. We h...

A twentieth century Han dynasty style bronze recumbent horse with three legs tucked under the body and head slightly turned. The well incised mane gath...

Featured a beautiful silvered bronze sculpture of Tibetan Tara with an recumbent goose. The Tara is decorated with flowers, lariats, ankle bracelets and cuffs. She wears an elaborate...

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...

A Magnificent Pair of Large Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Style Two-Tone Patinated and Dore Bronze Dog and Cat Form Chenets/Andirons Modeled after Jacques Caffieri...