A pair of Louis XVI style gilt and blued steel chenets France, late 19th century

In fair condition. Extensive scratches to blued vases. One toupie foot lacking to one chenet. The department encourages interested parties to use our online e-catalogue's zoom function to enjoy magnified and alternate views of this lot.
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An identical pair of chenets also incorporating three small toupie feet at the front is in Louis XVI's library at Versailles (illustrated, G. Van der Kamp, Versailles, Paris, 1978, p. 33). A nearly identical pair of chenets with a single central foot and a foliate frill beneath the central mask is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, illustrated, S. Eriksen, Early Neoclassicism in France, London, 1974, pl. 232. As noted by Eriksen, models such as these, fitted with a classical tripod, were in production by 1770. Further models are in the royal palace in Stockholm, and Fontainebleau, (see Ottomeyer, Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 273).