GILT BRONZE: FIREDOGS
- Pair of Firedogs
Paris, circa 1735
Gilt bronze
Left: Height: 1 ft. 2V8 in. (35.9 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3 in. (38.1 cm); Depth: 9^5 /s in. (24.4 cm);
Right: Height: 1 ft.^34 in. (32.3 cm); Width:
ι ft. 3 X 4 in. (38.7 cm); Depth: 8^7 /s in.
(22.6 cm)
Accession number 71 .DF.114.1—.2
PROVENANCE
[Duveen Brothers, New York]; Anna
Thomson Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse
Pointe Farms, Michigan (sold, Christie's,
London, June 24, 1971, lot 18); purchased
at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
Firedog .1 176 Firedog .2^176
- Pair of Firedogs
Paris, circa 1735
By Charles Cressent
Gilt bronze
Height: 1 ft. 3% in. (38.7 cm); Width:
ι ft. 2^3 /8 in. (36.4 cm); Depth: $Vs in.
(20.6 cm)
Accession number 73 .DF.63.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Paris; [Didier Aaron,
Paris, by 1971]; [French and Co., New York,
1972]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Fourth
International Exhibition Presented by
CINOA, March-May 1970, no. 237.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Marie-Juliette Ballot, Charles Cressent:
Sculpteur, ébéniste, collectionneur, Archives
de Vart frangais: Nouvelle période 10 (Paris,
1919), p. 218; Wilson, Selections, no. 17,
p. 34, illus.; Ottomeyer and Pröschel,
Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 112.
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FRENCH GILT BRONZE: FIREDOGS lOJ
