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A NAPOLEON III PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD GUERIDON
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A NAPOLEON III PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD GUERIDON
MID-19TH CENTURY
With a shaped circular top with an ormolu leaf-tip and beaded edge centering a circular Sèvres-style plaque depicting courtly figures in a pastoral landscape against a turquoise ground, surrounded by eight similar foliate painted plaques inset in finely chased ormolu border, above a shaped conforming frieze, mounted with Sèvres-style plaques depicting birds and foliage within ormolu-moulded frames above four ormolu-edged C-scroll supports on foliate scrolling sabots, with leather casters and a circular quarter-veneered undertier with a ormolu-moulded edge--28 1/3in. (72cm.) high, 28¼in. (71.8cm.) diameter
MID-19TH CENTURY
With a shaped circular top with an ormolu leaf-tip and beaded edge centering a circular Sèvres-style plaque depicting courtly figures in a pastoral landscape against a turquoise ground, surrounded by eight similar foliate painted plaques inset in finely chased ormolu border, above a shaped conforming frieze, mounted with Sèvres-style plaques depicting birds and foliage within ormolu-moulded frames above four ormolu-edged C-scroll supports on foliate scrolling sabots, with leather casters and a circular quarter-veneered undertier with a ormolu-moulded edge--28 1/3in. (72cm.) high, 28¼in. (71.8cm.) diameter