Lot 53
53
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
AN ORMOLU GUERIDON, in the manner of Adam Weisweiler, the circular onyx top with an engine-turned collar above a channelled frieze with interlaced laurel and ribbon, on female herm-supports with wheat-sheaf capitals and panelled tapering stems hung with foliate-sprays, the stiff-leaf spreading socle joined by a beaded channelled spiral stretcher with central patera on spirally-fluted turned tapering legs and turned feet

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AN ORMOLU GUERIDON, in the manner of Adam Weisweiler, the circular onyx top with an engine-turned collar above a channelled frieze with interlaced laurel and ribbon, on female herm-supports with wheat-sheaf capitals and panelled tapering stems hung with foliate-sprays, the stiff-leaf spreading socle joined by a beaded channelled spiral stretcher with central patera on spirally-fluted turned tapering legs and turned feet
22¼in. (56.5cm.) diam.; 30in. (76cm.) high

Lot Essay

The table's basket-bearing nymph herms derive from those of Marie-Antoinette's writing-table delivered to the Château de Saint-Cloud by Dominique Daguerre in 1784, and acquired by Empress Eugènie in 1865 for the Tuileries (see D. Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Paris, 1993 no. 97). The nymph pattern also features on an ormolu tripod-table of the 1780s in the Frick Collection (see T. Dell, The Frick Collection, Princetown, 1992 p.143)

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