Pair of firedogs

French

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The model of these chenets in the chinoiserie style, incorporating a Chinese couple and parrots, was apparently very popular since many eighteenth as well as nineteenth century versions are known today. Lazare Duvaux (c. 1703-1758), one of the Parisian marchands merciers who dealt in luxury objects such as gilt-bronze furnishings, sold a pair of fire dogs with Chinese figures to the Marquise de la Ferrière in August of 1756. It may have been a set of this design.

Pair of firedogs, Gilt bronze, brass, French

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1972.284.8

Pair of firedogs, Gilt bronze, brass, French
Pair of firedogs, Gilt bronze, brass, French
Pair of firedogs, Gilt bronze, brass, French
Pair of firedogs, Gilt bronze, brass, French

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