A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE GRAND TOUR HORSES

A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE GRAND TOUR HORSES

IN THE MANNER OF JACQUES CAFFIERI, PROBABLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY

each rearing horse with a gilt tasselled saddle cloth on a rouge griotte plinth (2)

26.2cm high, 25.5cm wide, 10cm deep

Catalogue Note

For a pair of very similar bronze horses mounted as firedogs see Geoffrey du Ballaigue, 'The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes II', pp. 720-21.