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Lot 323
  • 323

A pair of bronze and gilt-bronze chenets early Louis XV, circa 1740

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • each 35cm. high, 34cm. wide; 1ft. 1¾in., 1ft.1¼in.
each with a seated male and female Chinese figure with a bird in their hand, on a scrolled and rocaille cast base

Catalogue Note

Comparative Literature:
F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, vol. II, p. 374, no. 191A and B.

This model of chenets with chinoiserie figures enjoyed immense popularity in the 18th entury and various variations on the present theme exist-see for example the pair in the Wrightsman Collection, op. cit., p. 374.

A consignment of furniture was sent from the French Court to M. le comte de Woronzow, Vice Chancelier de S.M.I. de Russie, in 1758 included `un feu représentant de grand chinois avec ornemans de bronze cisélé et doré d'or moulu....760 l.'

 A very similar pair was sold as lot 278, in these Rooms, 28th November -8th december 1989 and also see lot 88, sold Christie's, London, 5th July 2001.