PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE "CHILDREN'S ARABESQUE" ANDRINGS

A pair of gilt and patinated bronze andirons with arabesque children . They are adorned with a putto warming himself by the flames, the lower part of whose body gives rise to acanthus scrolls that join the andirons at the joint, which consists of a flaming incense burner supported by goat heads. After a model by Jean-François Forty , an ornamentalist of Italian origin, cast in bronze by the founder Jean-Noël Turpin in 1785.

19th century, circa 1850

Dimensions: L:30cm, W:7cm, H:32cm.

Documentation:

neoclassical andirons exist . One is preserved at the Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris. Another example was located in the grand apartments of the Palace of Versailles before the Revolution. Indeed, in 1786, Marie Antoinette had a fire of this model delivered by Jean Hauré, supplier to the Crown Furniture Repository, purchased from Turpin for the Queen's salon of nobles, which was then being renovated. These andirons were then surrounded by corner cabinets and chests of drawers by Jean-Henri Riesener.

Bibliography:

N. Gasc, “The Nissim de Camondo museum”, Paris, Albin Michel, 1991, pp. 2 and 59.