Antique French carved Ebony Wood Satyr Fireplace Mantel

Jean Joseph Fouco-inspired satyrs: A remarkable and extremely rare Louis XVI antique chimneypiece superbly carved in ebony coromandel, an exotic tropical hardwood. The model for the female satyrs being the originals by Jean-Joseph Foucou, 1729-1815. Each satyress lion-skin draped, vine leaf crowned, with ivy leaves around the waist . The frieze with carved floral decoration centered by a mask of Bacchus.

Similar examples in bronze and marble executed by French 18c bronzier, Pierre Gouthiere... see our sold stock no. 7844, from Carlton House and others in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and in the Fragonard room in the 19c New York mansion of Henry Clay Frick. The Frick Collectio - both images viewable below..
French, circa 1800.

Link to: Antique English Regency chimneypieces inc. Louis XVI, French Empire and George IV fireplace mantels.

	Width	Height	Depth
External	79.2" 201.2 cms	53.0" 134.5 cms	9.4" 24 cms
Internal	49.0" 124.5 cms	41.4" 105.1 cms

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