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拍品專文
This elegant and finely-chased guéridon, with its distinctive demi-lunette gallery to the lower tier, relates to a small group of guéridons almost certainly designed by the celebrated architect and ornamentiste Andrei Voronikhin (1759-1814). These may possibly have been executed by Friedrich Bergenfeldt, probably the finest bronzier active in St. Petersburg circa 1800. Voronikhin and Bergenfeldt collaborated on numerous occasions, in particular at Pavlovsk, which was redecorated to the designs of the former after the 1803 fire. The group of guéridons, all with lion-masks as opposed to the ram's masks on this model, have largely remained in various Imperial palaces in St. Petersburg and include:
- a guéridon at Pavlovsk with a porcelain top from the Imperial Porcelain Factory, decorated with a view of Pavlovsk and dated 1798 (illustrated in A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture, London, 1988, p. 29, fig. 13);
- the pair to the above, which was with Antoine Chenevière, London, circa 1991 (illustrated in the Antique Collector, trade advertisement, June, 1991);
- a further example at Pavlovsk, but with a blue glass top from the Imperial Glass Factory (illustrated in A. Gaydamak, Russian Empire, Moscow, 2000, p. 64);
- a guéridon of larger dimensions at Gatchina, with chains between the lion masks and a pendant vase between the legs (illustrated in Applied and Decorative Arts at the Gatchina Palace Museum, St. Petersburg, 1991);
- a guéridon conceived without lower stretcher, from the collection of Jacques Doucet, sold Paris, 7 June 1912, lot 314 and subsequently sold from the collection of Mme. Pierre Schlumberger, Sotheby's Monaco, 26 February 1992, lot 66.
The distinctive inventory number R449 is that of the French Rothschilds (see also lot 74). Although Baron Eugène was from the Viennese branch, his mother Bettina was a French Rothschild, the daughter of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (d.1905). Related inventory numbers are recorded in both black and red paint, the R appearing both before and after the three digit numbers. Examples include the celebrated commode made for the Dauphine at Choisy (the Riahi Collection, sold Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 20) as well as on the Riesener suite of lacquer furniture from the collection of Akram Ojjeh, sold Christie's Monaco, 11-12 December 1999, lot 35.
- a guéridon at Pavlovsk with a porcelain top from the Imperial Porcelain Factory, decorated with a view of Pavlovsk and dated 1798 (illustrated in A. Chenevière, Russian Furniture, London, 1988, p. 29, fig. 13);
- the pair to the above, which was with Antoine Chenevière, London, circa 1991 (illustrated in the Antique Collector, trade advertisement, June, 1991);
- a further example at Pavlovsk, but with a blue glass top from the Imperial Glass Factory (illustrated in A. Gaydamak, Russian Empire, Moscow, 2000, p. 64);
- a guéridon of larger dimensions at Gatchina, with chains between the lion masks and a pendant vase between the legs (illustrated in Applied and Decorative Arts at the Gatchina Palace Museum, St. Petersburg, 1991);
- a guéridon conceived without lower stretcher, from the collection of Jacques Doucet, sold Paris, 7 June 1912, lot 314 and subsequently sold from the collection of Mme. Pierre Schlumberger, Sotheby's Monaco, 26 February 1992, lot 66.
The distinctive inventory number R449 is that of the French Rothschilds (see also lot 74). Although Baron Eugène was from the Viennese branch, his mother Bettina was a French Rothschild, the daughter of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (d.1905). Related inventory numbers are recorded in both black and red paint, the R appearing both before and after the three digit numbers. Examples include the celebrated commode made for the Dauphine at Choisy (the Riahi Collection, sold Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 20) as well as on the Riesener suite of lacquer furniture from the collection of Akram Ojjeh, sold Christie's Monaco, 11-12 December 1999, lot 35.