A PAIR OF RÉGENCE STYLE GILT-BRONZE CHENETS, AFTER THE MODEL BY NICOLAS COUSTOU, CIRCA 1890

These chenets are related to a drawing attributed to the sculptor Nicolas Coustou (1658-1733), reputedly for lead sphinxes which stood on the terrace of the Royal Pavilion at Marly, now in the Cabinet of Drawings at the Stockholm Museum, illustrated by François Souchal, Les Frères Coustou, Paris, 1980, pl. 13, fig.c. A pair of Régence chenets of this model, the shields with the Bavarian Royal arms, is in the Bayerisches National Museum, Munich, illustrated by H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, 1986, p.71, 1.10.10.

Related examples were sold at Sotheby's London, Important Continental Furniture, 3 July 2007, lot 27 and at Sotheby's Paris, Collections Eleanor Post Close & Antal Post de Bekessy, 19-20 December 2017, lot 673.