Live Auction 18366The Collector: European and English 18th and 19th Century Furniture and Works of Art, Silver, Ceramics and Gold Boxes
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU PRESSE-PAPIERS
Lot 11

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU PRESSE-PAPIERS

LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed15 July 2020

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU PRESSE-PAPIERS
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each in the form reclining winged putto, one resting on a dog, the other on a sheep, and holding portrait medallions of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, on a entrelac cast stepped base with spiral ribbon moulding
6 in. (15 cm.) high; 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide; 4 in. (10 cm.) deep

Specialist note


The design for these superb presse-papiers is related to the work of Jacques Caffiéri (1678-1755), sculpteur, fondeur et ciseleur du Roi. Closely comparable bronze groups on ormolu rococo bases are in the Wallace Collection, cats S206 and S207 (Sir J.G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues. Sculpture, London, 1981, p. 76, pl. 52). The winged cherubs are holding portrait medallions of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, which relate closely to the oeuvre of Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (d. 1819), engraver of coins and medals.