FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE GUERIDON
FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With a circular inset green and red marble top bordered with an acanthus-cast frieze on turned-supports joined by x-frames, the tripartite base on imbricated scrolling legs with paw feet, with torn printed paper label to underside ET.WALON FRERES, S. PA 102 RUE LAFAYETTE PARIS
29½ in. (75 cm.) high, 24 in. (61 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 21-22 October 1955, lot 333.

Special notice

Christie's is selling all lots in this sale as agent for an organization which holds a State of New York Exempt Organization certificate. Seller explicitly reserves all trademark and trade name rights and rights of privacy and publicity in the name and image of Doris Duke. No buyer of any property in this sale will acquire any right to use the Doris Duke name or image. Seller further explicitly reserves all copyright rights in designs or other copyrightable works included in the property offered for sale. No buyer of any property in the sale will acquire the rights to reproduce, distribute copies of, or prepare derivative works of such designs or copyrightable works.

Lot Essay

The form of this table has been inspired by designs by Napoleon's famous architects Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine. In their Receuil de decorations interieures, 1801, plate IV, they published the design for a jardinière on a tripartite base with lattice supports virtually identical to those on the gueridon offered here. Also in plate XXIII, the lion's paw monopodia of the small worktable relate very closely to the legs and feet of this piece.

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