Live Auction 8011The Gothick Pavilion - A Private Collection from Belgravia
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE FENDER
Lot 315

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE FENDER

CIRCA 1810

Closed26 January 2011

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GBP 22,500

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE FENDER
CIRCA 1810
The pierced trellis mounted with rosettes and stars, the pedestals surmounted with recumbent lions and applied with Apollo in his chariot, the lions possibly originally patinated, re-gilt
10¼ in. (17 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide, adjustable

Anonymous sale, 'Le Pavillon Chougny', Christie's London, 9-10 December 2004, lot 551.

Specialist note

A related feu a galerie with recumbent lioness at each end, as well as a feu with pierced axe-head motif like the present example, both formed part of Général Moreau's Consulat furnishings in the rue d'Anjou by 1804. Now at Fontainebleau, both are discussed in J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, nos. 266 and 261.