Live Auction 7592Four British Collections Including Important Furniture
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY GUERIDONS
Lot 54 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
(LOTS 40-81)

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY GUERIDONS

19TH CENTURY

Closed5 June 2008

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY GUERIDONS
19TH CENTURY
Each with a circular top within a fruiting laurel and rose garland-cast frieze, above female herms supporting flower-filled baskets and with ribbon-tied floral trails, joined by scrolled stretchers with a central foliate patera, on spirally-turned toupie feet
27½ in. (70 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) diameter (2)

Specialist note

The design of the leg used to support the gueridon tops is derived from a mount used by the ébéniste Adam Weisweiler for use on the angles of secretaires and for the legs of a table delivered by Daguerre in 1784 for Queen Marie-Antoinette (M. Segoura, Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, p. 42). The pattern was adopted in the 19th century by Louis-Auguste-Alfred Beurdeley (1808-1882) and his son Alfred and Henry Dasson (1825-1896). Beurdeley executed a number of similar tables after the originals by Weisweiler and Riesener (C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985, p. 226).