LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE TOP ASSOCIATED AND THE SÈVRES STYLE PORCELAIN 19TH CENTURY

This interesting gueridon was acquired at one of the landmark sales of French furniture in the 1970's, that of the collection formed by Mr. and Mrs. Deane Johnson. The sale included many superb pieces of Louis XVI furniture, many with royal provenance, notably the spectacular console supplied by Riesener to Queen Marie Antoinette (later sold for $3.184 million in 1988, at the time a record price for French furniture) and the celebrated porcelain-mounted secretaire by Weisweiler from Empress Maria Feodorovna's boudoir at Pavlovsk, subsequently acquired by the legendary dealer Duveen from the Soviet government in 1932 and sold to Anne Ford Johnson in 1956.