Live Auction 10689The Opulent Eye - 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III GILT AND SILVERED-BRONZE GUERIDONS
Lot 179

A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III GILT AND SILVERED-BRONZE GUERIDONS

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed11 March 2015

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GBP 62,500

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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III GILT AND SILVERED-BRONZE GUERIDONS
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with brèche marble top above a frieze cast with anthemion, on three monopidae legs with classical bust supports, joined by a scrolling under-tier, on paw feet
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) wide; 14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

These guéridons are of tripod form derived from the antheniennes of antiquity. They are in the neo-grec or Etruscan style fashionable during the Second Empire. The Parisian bronzier and fondeur G. Servant specialised in Egyptian and Greek Revival pieces and exhibited a pair of tripod pedestals of similar design at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876 (illustrated in Edward Strahan's Illustrated Catalogue of The Masterpieces of the International Exhibition 1876, Gebbie & Barrie, Philadelphia, 1876, p. 393).