A pair of Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted bird's eye maple and Japanese lacquer gueridons a double colonnettes

AFTER MODELS BY ADAM WEISWEILER, CIRCA 1890

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A pair of Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted bird's eye maple and Japanese lacquer gueridons a double colonnettes
After models by Adam Weisweiler, Circa 1890
Each with circular glass-protected top, inset to the centre with a lacquered landscape panel, supported on triple twinned simulated bamboo columnar uprights joined by a concave-fronted undertier and with central pierced galleried tazza, on splayed feet
29¼in. (74.3cm.) high; 14¼in. (36.2cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

The design of the present pair of occasional tables closely relates to the guéridon à double colonnettes, an innovation of the celebrated Parisian ébéniste, Adam Weisweiler (maître 1778). With the common feature being its twin 'bamboo' supports, Weisweiler produced several variations of the table, with lacquer-inset tops, as here, or more frequently inset with marble, lapis lazuli, marble or jasperware porcelain. Examples are known to have been supplied to Madame du Barry and the Comte Skavronsky.

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