A fine pair of Empire style patinated bronze andirons, each with an eagle holding a salamander and a torch, raised on a plinth decorated with sphinxes and laurels, after the model by Pierre Gouthière originally made for the great gallery of the Hôtel of the Duchesse de Mazarin in 1781, and then modernized to the goût du jour for Napoleon at La Malmaison, H 33 - W 33 cm
A fine pair of Empire style patinated bronze andirons, each with an eagle holding a salamander and a torch, raised on a plinth decorated with sphinxes and laurels, after the model by Pierre Gouthière originally made for the great gallery of the Hôtel of the Duchesse de Mazarin in 1781, and then modernized to the goût du jour for Napoleon at La Malmaison, H 33 - W 33 cm
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