Objets d'Art

Pair Of French Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Chenets

Period

Louis XVI; ca. 1780

Material

gilt bronze

Sizes

(height) 40.00cm. (width) 13.00cm. (Length) 41.00cm.

Description

The chenets are decorated with flaming braziers that are carried by Karyatids on goatlegs. On the other end turned up bunches of grapes.
The sides are decorated with rosettes surrounded by twining vines.