In the Louis XVI style, each modeled as two putti emerging from scrolling acanthus leaves joined by an oakleaf swag to warm their hands at a flaming torch, on a rectangular fluted plinth inset by a central panel decorated with scrolling foliage, on toupie feet, each element incised 'B Y'
13 in. (33 cm.) high, 14 in. (36 cm.) wide, 3 in. (8 cm.) deep

The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.

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This pair of chenets is a variation of those executed by the renowned fondeur Jean-Noël Turpin after drawings by Jean-François Forty, a pair of which were placed in the Salon des Nobles de la Reine at Versailles in 1786. Another pair are preserved in the Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris (A. Michel, The Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris, 1991, p. 59 and G. & R. Wannenes, Les Bronzes Ornementaux et Les objets montés, Milan, 2004, p. 291). While these chenets are not sculpted with the full length of the scrolling acanthus arabesques and the opposing flaming urns in Turpin's celebrated model, they are undoubtedly after Turpin, as they depict the same putti emerging from acanthus and leaning in with outstretched arms, as if to warm themselves at the fire.