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A fine Directoire gilt and patinated bronze fender, the stepped rectangular standards cast with armorial motifs amid scrolling foliage and surmounted by patinated winged griffins, each with an opposing foot resting on a sphere, the shaped rail cast with a floral and foliate swag centred by a palmette and flanked by foliate wrapped flaming torches, below a patinated bar with pinecone terminals fixed by circular palmette cast drum-shaped supports Paris, date circa 1800 Length 133cm, width 33cm. It is interesting to compare this fender with one attributed to the eminent Empire fondeur-ciseleur Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843), which has Sphinxes seated on the standards and quite similar armorial mounts below, (illustrated in Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, “Vergoldete Bronzen”, 1986, p. 341, pl. 5.4.6).
 

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RICHARD REDDING ANTIQUES
Dorfstrasse 30
8322 Gündisau, Switzerland,

tel +41 44 212 00 14
mobile + 41 79 333 40 19
fax +41 44 212 14 10

redding@reddingantiques.ch
Exhibitor at TEFAF, Maastricht
Member of the Swiss Antique Association
Founding Member of the Horological Foundation

Art Research: 
Alice Munro Faure, B.Ed. (Cantab),
Kent/GB, alice@munro-faure.co.uk

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