A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILT-BRONZE CHENETS, each with a confronting sphinx with shaped head-dress and tasselled lambrequin-draped saddle, shown seated on her haunches, her paws resting on a foliate scrolled volute, the moulded spreading rectangular arched base centred by an espagnolette-mask with lambrequin head-dress and plumed collar flanked by acanthus C-scrolls and Imperial portrait silhouettes, the sides with scallop-shell headed arches, on panelled supports applied with rosettes and strapwork and on acanthus scroll feet 7¼in. (18.5cm.) wide; 13in.(33cm.) high; 3½in. (9cm.) deep (2)
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILT-BRONZE CHENETS, each with a confronting sphinx with shaped head-dress and tasselled lambrequin-draped saddle, shown seated on her haunches, her paws resting on a foliate scrolled volute, the moulded spreading rectangular arched base centred by an espagnolette-mask with lambrequin head-dress and plumed collar flanked by acanthus C-scrolls and Imperial portrait silhouettes, the sides with scallop-shell headed arches, on panelled supports applied with rosettes and strapwork and on acanthus scroll feet 7¼in. (18.5cm.) wide; 13in.(33cm.) high; 3½in. (9cm.) deep (2)
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