A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDONS
Lot 25

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDONS

IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER, 20TH CENTURY

Fermé17 March 2011

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GBP 5,000

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDONS
IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER, 20TH CENTURY
Each with a circular red and yellow-veined breccia mottled marble top above three pairs of simulated bambo supports joined by a tripartite stretcher surmounted by a circular dish and terminating in folate cast feet
29¾ in. (76.5 cm.) high; 20¾ in. (52.5 cm.) diameter (2)

Christie's, London, 11 September 2008, lot 101 (£11,250 with premium).

Note du spécialiste

The model for this pair of gueridons was first executed by Adam Weisweiler, maître in 1778 and related examples are illustrated in P. Lemonnier, Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, p.90 and P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, 1998, p. 868, fig. A.