Pair of firedogs, ca. 1760–70, French, Gilt bronze, Height (each): 16 1/2 in. ( cm), Metalwork-Gilt Bronze, Firedogs

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Pair of firedogs, ca. 1760–70, French, Gilt bronze, Height (each): 16 1/2 in. ( 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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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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