A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU CHENETS

Lot 57
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£ 15 000
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Lot 57 | A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU CHENETS
Valeur estimée
£ 15 000 – 25 000
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU CHENETS

19TH CENTURY

Each modelled as a putto holding drapery standing on the back of a panther, on a shaped base with scrolled feet

17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) high; 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) wide; 7 in. (17 cm.) deep





Provenance

Marie Juliette Elizabeth Amélie, known as May Ephrussi (1880-1964), later Princess of Faucigny-Lucinge, at Hôtel de Breteuil, 12 avenue Foch, now the Irish Embassy.

The collection of the Princess of X; sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Me Maurice Rheims, 12 June 1953, lot 6, illustrated pl. IV.



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