A pair of gilt-bronze chenets Louis XVI, late 18th century

each with a swagged flaming-urn finial on hoof feet to one end and leaf-wrapped pine cone finial to the other, on a laurel-leaf cast base of fluted columns with oak-leaf wrapped plinths

In overall very good original condition with superb quality casting and original. Most attractive model. Very minor surface dirt and rubbing to the gilding in places which can easily be cleaned off. There are holes in the back of the chenet to affix the iron supports which are now missing.
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Comparative Literature:
J-P. Samoyault, Musée National du Château de Fontainebleau, catalogue des collections de mobilier, Paris,1989, p.214, fig.199, for a pair of Louis XVI chenets of this model, which is at the palais de Fontainebleau and was probably originally in the salon of Cardinal Fesch. These chenets were almost certainly among the purchases of 1804, when several feux à vases were acquired from the bronzier André-Antoine Ravrio (1759-1814).