We think it was used as a door handle, or a furniture ornament. Condition is not perfect, with some injury of time and use, scratches, difference in patina, as natural on such item. Original 150 years old black patina, with a light use. Unsigned, as often in this period, perfectly chizeled. Needs a marble basement.
Condition is very good, but probably, some brass reins are missing.
This piece is unsigned, but of a good artist. Gilded bronze frame of the period. Pretty grey stripped kittens hidden in a muff on a large Louis XV armchair, or in a clumpsy shoe. Drawed with two pencil sketchs, white and black, on a grey paper. We guarantee that it is an original piece of art, not a reproduction, drawed at the end of 19th century.