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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDON
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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDON

CIRCA 1785, POSSIBLY BY DAVID ROENTGEN

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDON
CIRCA 1785, POSSIBLY BY DAVID ROENTGEN
The later circular portor marble top above a panelled frieze with two drawers and two slides, on square tapering legs mounted with mille-raies panels and terminating in square blocks and spherical sabots
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) diameter
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This circular breakfast/tea-table is veneered in English taste in silken-figured mahogany and designed in the Louis XVI antique/Grecian manner adopted in the 1770s by David Roentgen of Neuwied (d.1807). Its frieze conceals a tea-pot slide and drawers and evokes lyric poetry with flowered and poetic laurel-wreathed patera framed in tablets enwreathed in Etruscan fashion by golden Venus pearl-string. It is further embellished with antique flutes above the herm-tapered legs that are enriched with golden tablets striated in the manner of Egyptian veil-drapery. No doubt the table was intended to be furnished with an en suite Grecian tea-chest, such as that now in the David Collection, Copenhagen (D.Fabian, Abraham und David Roentgen, Bad Neustadt, 1996, fig. 253, no.585).