Dalva Brothers Antiques, Antique Furniture, New York

French 18th century furniture, clocks, lighting, paintings, porcelain, sculpture and tapestries

Régence ormoulu chenets. The sculptural chenets portray a nude figure of Venus presenting an apple and Apollo playing his lyre. Each is sitting on a shell supported by an eagle and a salamander, possibly symbolizing “Fire” and “Air”. This same unusual iconography is found on the drawing of a bookplate proposed for Madame de Pompadour. Each chenet is raised on a “C”-form plinth decorated with acanthus leaf moldings.

Ex Collection: Lucien Surmont: Paris 5/13/1912. Nº                                              

                         Alphonse Kann: Paris 12/6-8/1920. Nº 204