CIRCA 1825

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND GILTWOOD PEDESTALS
CIRCA 1825
Each with white-veined Carrara marble top above a plain frieze mounted with rosettes and butterflies, above X-frame giltwood vertical stretchers and stepped capital-headed triform supports and concave-sided plinth base, on stepped block feet
35¾ in. (90.5 cm.) high; 16½ in. (40.5 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

Acquired from Jeremy Ltd, London

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Lot Essay

These pedestals relate to a design by Charles Percier (1764-1838) for a guéridon which was commissioned from Jacob-Desmalter in 1809 for the bed-chamber of Empress Josephine at Fontainebleau (Musée National du Château de Fontainebleau, Meubles entrés sous le Premier Empire, J-P. Samoyault ed., Paris, 2004, no. 180, pp. 253-4; the design sold Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 15 July 2001, lot 11). The design (illustrated) displays the same tripod base with cross-stretchers although the Fontainebleau guéridon's were executed in ormolu, rather than giltwood and mahogany.

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