A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CHENETS circa 1770, stamped Pajot

With rubbing to ormolu in areas throughout. Scattered oxidation and surface dirt. One with very minor loss to one bow of one swag on base of larger urn and very small break to ormolu swag on base of smaller urn. Iron supports later, now both with one vacant screw hole where original support used to be. Each lacking one bun feet. One lacking small rosette from base, the other with vacant drill hole to base. In good overall condition.
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Antoine-Philippe Pajot was one of the more versatile ciseleurs of the second half of the 18th century producing a large variety of bronzes d'ameublement, mounted porcelain, glass, hardstones and rock crystal as well as furniture mounts, which were utilized by some of the most illustrious ébénistes of the time such as Adrien Delorme, Antoine Gosselin, Jean-Franois Leleu, Pierre Macret and Pierre Pionez. After becoming maître fondeur-ciseleur in 1765 Pajot had briefly worked in the workshop of Pierre Macret in the Grande Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, from where he soon moved his atelier to a house belonging to the marquise de la Bruyère in the rue Bar-du-Bec. Although he did design and sign his own models, Pajot did not execute them but outsourced their manufacture to his fellow craftsmen including the bronziers Jean-Jacques Gosset and François Virgile and the doreur François Fagard.