THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

These guéridons are of tripod form derived from the antheniennes of antiquity. They are in the neo-grec or Etruscan style fashionable during the Second Empire. The Parisian bronzier and fondeur G. Servant specialised in Egyptian and Greek Revival pieces and exhibited a pair of tripod pedestals of similar design at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876 (illustrated in Edward Strahan's Illustrated Catalogue of The Masterpieces of the International Exhibition 1876, Gebbie & Barrie, Philadelphia, 1876, p. 393).