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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDON
Lot 135

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDON

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed20 September 2012

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GBP 7,500

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDON
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular brèche d'alet marble top with moulded ormolu surround, above a frieze drawer centred with a bas-relief plaque cast with putti representing the arts, with simulated drawer to the reverse, on tapering fluted legs joined by an acajou mouchete tier with a trellis-cut gallery, on spirally-fluted feet with brass caps and castors
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 23¾ in. (60 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Although no signature has been found on this table, it is a recorded model by Henry Dasson. An example by Dasson, further embellished with Jasperware roundels and a chess-board, is illustrated from the Archive Lécoules in C. Mestdagh, L'Ameublement Français: 1850-1900, Paris, 2010, p. 281, fig. 332. The model is also recorded by Maison Krieger who possibly bought the rights to it from Dasson's sale of remaining stock in 1894.