Live Auction 6337Stephane Boudin at 5 Belgrave Square, Les Objets de l'Empire & Mount Kennedy, Ireland. Three Private Collections
A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, BRONZE, GREEN PORPHYRY AND MARBLE GUERIDON
Lot 34

A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, BRONZE, GREEN PORPHYRY AND MARBLE GUERIDON

CIRCA 1790

Closed16 March 2012

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GBP 32,450

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, BRONZE, GREEN PORPHYRY AND MARBLE GUERIDON
CIRCA 1790
The associated circular serpentine marble top above an associated plain frieze with stiff-leaf cast rim, supported by three seated sphinxes on capital-headed monopodiae mounted with anthemion and joined by an associated stiff-leaf cast stretcher, with hairy hoof feet, on an associated concave-sided tripartite green porphyry plinth and bun feet with castors, the sphinxes apparently original but with some redundent locating pins, possibly originally hung with chains to the back of the legs
36¾ in. (96.5 cm.) high; 20¼ in. (51.4 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

The design of this gueridon is inspired by a work table with cassolette by Jacob Frères, which derived from the famous Pompeian tripod in the Naples Archeological Museum and published by C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine in Receuil des Décorations Intérieurs, 1812, pl. 28.
A very similar example which formerly stood in the bedchamber of the Comte d'Artois at the Tuileries is now in the Chambre de l'Imperatrice Josephine at the château de la Malmaison. Further related examples include an anthenienne in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris and another in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon.