A pair of Louis XV ormolu chenets mid-18th century

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Description

height 12 in.
30.5 cm

depicting a boy and a girl respectively, he with a wide-brimmed hat and she with a scarf, each holding a box and seated on a rocky base issuing acanthus leaves.

Provenance

Arnold Seligmann, Paris.

Collection of Mrs. Henry Walters, sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1941.

Collection of Thelma Chrysler Foy, sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 15-16, 1959, lot 283, illustrated.