Live Auction 5251Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BIRDSEYE MAPLE GUERIDON
Lot 193

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BIRDSEYE MAPLE GUERIDON

OF LATE LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF GASPARD SCHNEIDER

Closed1 April 2014

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GBP 3,750

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BIRDSEYE MAPLE GUERIDON
OF LATE LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF GASPARD SCHNEIDER
With grey-veined white marble oval top, the frieze and upper-leg mounts cast with grape-vine thyrsus, palmettes and female masks wearing head-dresses, the legs panelled in birdseye maple
29.1/2 in. (75 cm.) high; 24.1/2 in. (62.5 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

Specialist note

This gueridon is after the model made in 1786 by Gaspard Schneider (maître 1786) with mounts by Thomire. The original is displayed at the Petit Trianon, Versailles. François Linke made variations of this celebrated table; see for instance Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 2007, lot 342. See also Christie's King Street, 15 March 2012, lot 8 for a closely related gueridon.