In the Louis XV style, each modeled as a boar or stag, on an elaborate foliate and scrolling base
14¹⁄₄ in. (36.5 cm.) high, 18 in. (46 cm.) wide, 10¹⁄₄ in. (26.5 cm.) deep, the slightly wider

European Furnishing from the Estate of the Late John F. Harjes; O. Rundle Gilbert, 9 November 1974, lot 1108.

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The pairing of a boar and recumbent stag was most notably employed on the chenets supplied by the bronzier Quentin-Claude Pitoin (d. 1786) for Madame du Barry's salon octagone at Fontainebleau in 1772 (P. Verlet, Les bronzes dores francais du XVIIIe Siecle, Paris, 1987, pp. 57-59). The pair was later placed by Louis XVI in his library at Versailles, and thereafter at the Palais des Tuileries. Similar pairs have been sold from the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2018, lot 664; the Collection of Prinz Maximilian zu Fürstenberg from Schloss Werenwag, Christie's, London, 2 October 2013, lot 173; and Christie's, Paris, 22 April 2013, lot 62.