AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF FRENCH LOUIS XV ORMOLU CHENETS

AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF 18th C. FRENCH LOUIS XV ORMOLU CHENETS. Each cast as military trophy, one with the feathered Turban, canon and boar, the other with a feathered helmet, quiver and ram, supported by cast-iron billet bar. An 18th century pair of chenets of this very model, from the Chateau de Hautefort was exhibited in the Exposition de l'Art Francoais au XVIIIe Si'cle, Exhibition Catalogue, Charlottenburg Palace, Copenhagen 1935. Another 18th century pair is at the J. Paul Getty Museum, G. Wilson, Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1977, p. 28. And a third pair is in a New York private collection. Sizes: H 15" (38cm.) x W 15.1/4" (39cm.)