Live Auction 7841500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
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Lot 206

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED THUYA GUERIDONS

OF RECENT MANUFACTURE, AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER

Closed29 April 2010

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED THUYA GUERIDONS
OF RECENT MANUFACTURE, AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER
Each with a circular variegated red marble top above three paired simulated bamboo supports joined by a tooled concave-sided platform and terminating in pad feet
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 19¾ in. (50 cm.) diameter (2)

Specialist note

The model for this pair of gueridons was first executed by Adam Weisweiler, maître in 1778 and is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIè Siècle, 1998, p. 868, fig. A.