LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE TOPS FRENCH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU, ALABASTER AND WHITE MARBLE GUERIDONS
LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE TOPS FRENCH, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a circular top with pierced rim with confronting goats flanking a tazza spilling grape-vines and above a patera-decorated rim, on a stand with three incurved supports centered by a vase with fruiting rim and joined by scrolling stretchers with central ring, on foliate feet and a pearl-rimmed rounded triangular base with tooled pad feet, one top stencilled to underside 'D' and 'A', the other 'C', the white marble of the tops possibly later, the top and base probably associated in the early 19th Century
35 in. (89 cm.) high, 28½ in. (73 cm.) diameter (2)

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Please note, the dimensions of the top vary slightly. One is 26 in. (66 cm.) in diameter, the other 28½ in. (72 cm.) in diameter.

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Both the size, unusual design and rich combination of mellow alabaster and brilliant ormolu mounts would have made these gueridons immensely attractive to Russian connoisseurs of French taste.

The bases of these guéridons are basically identical to a pair of white marble-mounted atheniennes from the Talleyrand collection, sold Christie's, Paris, 26 November, 2005, lot 72. Interestingly, Héli de Talleyrand was in Berlin for some of the famous sales of the Imperial Russian collections by the Soviets that were held in the early 1930's, mostly at the Lepke auction house. And while these atheniennes were actually from the Georges Blumenthal Collection and were purchased by Talleyrand at Drouot in Paris in 1933, he clearly understood and appreciated the lapidary and metalwork of Russian craftsmen.