ID 1250880
Lot 7 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BLUED-STEEL CHENETS 'AUX CHINOIS'
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
SUPPLIED BY FRANÇOIS RÉMOND TO DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE IN 1787, AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-JACQUES LEQUEU
One with a seated Chinese man and the other a Chinese woman wearing straw hats perched on a pagoda roof with tessellated tiles, each flanked by sea creatures, above a pierced blind-fret frieze hung with bells on turned tapering feet, with their original fire-irons mounted with further pagoda roofs
12 in. (30 cm.) high; 12 in. (30 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied by François Rémond to Dominique Daguerre on 17th March 1787, almost certainly for a pavillon chinois.
The collection of the Goddard family, Providence, Rhode Island.
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