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Pair of Louis XVI Gilt and Patinated Bronze Sphinx Chenets

$17,500per set
£13,325.88per set
€15,344.40per set
CA$24,799.04per set
A$26,674.92per set
CHF 14,255.85per set
MX$314,421.25per set
NOK 179,732.86per set
SEK 164,309.95per set
DKK 114,648.55per set

About the Item

Each with a recumbent winged sphinx with scrolling foliate arabesques to their back, upon a bow-ended rectangular gadrooned plinth, the frieze with a panel applied with entrelacs, on fluted toupie feet. Several models of chenets with sphinx exist, dating from the 1780s. An example with winged sphinxes with headresses and with female mask centering the frieze, attributed to either Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe Thomire, exists in several versions in the Louvre, Versailles and the Cleveland Museum of Art (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.276, fig. 4.11.14.). This model is based on a drawing by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated op. cit., fig. 4.11.13. Another type of sphinx chenet, lacking wings but with similar female mask frieze, is at the château de Versailles, the sphinx modelled by Louis-Simon Boizot, the ciselure by Thomire and the gilding by Claude Galle; they were originally supplied to Marie Antoinette’s Salon des Nobles at Versailles in 1786 (illustrated Ottomeyer and Pröschel op. cit., fig.4.11.17. and also illustrated in Pierre Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris 1987, p.214-5, fig.241-42). See Christie’s sale 9756, New York (26 October 2001), Lot 326, for a similar model which sold $28,200.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 13.5 in (34.29 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)
  • Sold As:
    Set of 2
  • Style:
    Louis XVI (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
    Bronze
  • Place of Origin:
    France
  • Period:
    18th Century and Earlier
  • Date of Manufacture:
    Late 18th Century
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. Some wear to ormolu.
  • Seller Location:
    Kittery Point, ME
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 10531stDibs: LU8376925222

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