拍品 73
73
A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND BRONZE CHENETS, in the Louis XVI style, each flanked with a seated winged griffin and an 'antique' urn with flaming finial, embellished with Bacchic festoons of vine leaves and grapes, and an arabesque scrollwork of sunflowers and acorn roundels emanating from the beast's tail, (one stamped on the reverse 1462)

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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND BRONZE CHENETS, in the Louis XVI style, each flanked with a seated winged griffin and an 'antique' urn with flaming finial, embellished with Bacchic festoons of vine leaves and grapes, and an arabesque scrollwork of sunflowers and acorn roundels emanating from the beast's tail, (one stamped on the reverse 1462)
14¾in. (37.5cm.) wide; 12½in. (32cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The 18th century model that these are copied from can now be found in the Louvre and are illustrated in Verlet, Maure LES BRONZE DORÉS FRANCAIS p. 314. Examples were made for the King at Versailles and Fontainebleau, as well as the Queen at Saint-Cloud.