Live Auction 2380Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND MARBLE GUERIDONS
Lot 187 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND MARBLE GUERIDONS

LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed27 September 2011

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND MARBLE GUERIDONS
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with a circular grey-veined white marble top within a tooled border, on tripartite base with shaped supports headed by scrolls, joined by a conforming platform and with shaped stretchers centred by a flaming urn, on acanthus-headed paw feet and castors
27¼ in. (69 cm.) high; 20¾ in. (52.5 cm.) diameter (2)

Christie's, London, 14 September 2006, lot 295

Specialist note

This type of gueridon was highly fashionable in France in the late 18th and in the early 19th Century. It was probably created by a marchand mercier. Interestingly, related gueridons with mahogany tops, undertiers and supports were executed by Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820) who was linked to the foremost marchand mercier of that time, Dominique Daguerre.