{"id":2869,"date":"2025-12-31T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:52:26","slug":"paire-de-chenets-depoque-louis-xiv-representant-venus-et-vulcain-vers-1710-1720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/paire-de-chenets-depoque-louis-xiv-representant-venus-et-vulcain-vers-1710-1720\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Louis XIV period andirons depicting Venus and Vulcan, circa 1710\u20131720"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pair of Louis XIV period andirons depicting Venus and Vulcan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chiselled and gilded bronze<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two mythological figures seated opposite each other rest on sarcophagus pedestals with bases formed by four dragons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paris, Circa 1710-1720<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dimensions&nbsp;: H 40 cm L 23,5 cm P 18 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This beautiful pair of andirons can be compared to another pair decorated with the same figures, acquired around 1725 by Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich for the Margrave's mirror cabinet at Ansbach Castle, or to an identical pair kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (No. 2004.137.1.2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paire de chenets d\u2019\u00e9poque Louis XIV repr\u00e9sentant Venus et Vulcain Bronze cisel\u00e9 et dor\u00e9 Les deux figures mythologiques&nbsp;assises face \u00e0 face&nbsp;reposent sur des&nbsp;socles en sarcophage dont le pi\u00e8tement est form\u00e9 par quatre dragons.&nbsp; Paris, vers 1710-1720 Dimensions&nbsp;: H 40 cm L 23,5 cm P 18 cm Cette tr\u00e8s belle paire de chenets est \u00e0 rapprocher &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/paire-de-chenets-depoque-louis-xiv-representant-venus-et-vulcain-vers-1710-1720\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00ab\u00a0Paire de chenets d&rsquo;\u00e9poque Louis XIV repr\u00e9sentant V\u00e9nus et Vulcain , Vers 1710-1720\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-objets","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vichot.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}