Pair of firedogs, ca. 1760–70, French, Gilt bronze, Height (each): 16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm), Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, Firedogs with paired figures of a Chinese man and woman enjoyed a certain popularity in the mid-eighteenth century. The present pair, with each figure seated before a curved palm branch on a twisted S-shaped scroll supported by a truncated fluted column beside a finial, is the later of two models that incorporate these particular figures
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Pair, firedogs, ca, 1760–70, French, Gilt bronze, Height, 16 1/2, 41.9 cm, Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, Firedogs, paired figures, Chinese man, woman enjoyed, certain popularity, mid-eighteenth century, present pair, figure seated, curved palm branch, twisted S-shaped, scroll, supported, truncated fluted, column, beside, finial, later, two models, incorporate, particular
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