BY JACOB FRERES, RUE MESLEE, CIRCA 1800

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A CONSULAT ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID AND BRONZED MAHOGANY GUERIDON
BY JACOB FRERES, RUE MESLEE, CIRCA 1800
The later circular Verde Antico marble top with moulded gallery on a tripartite waisted and fluted shaft centred by paterae, on fluted scrolling legs and paw feet, stamped JACOB FRERES/RUE MESLEE, the tilting action later
29 ½ in. (75 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) diameter

Provenance

With Maurice Segoura, Paris, February 1988.

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Lot Essay

Two similar guéridons with the same triaptite legs are in the collection of the château de Fontainebleau. One is stamped Jacob Frères, rue Meslée and the other JD (J. P. Samoyault, Meubles entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 2004, pp. 249-250, ill. 177 and 178). A further tilt-top gueridon from the bedroom of Mme Recamier, is also stamped 'Jacob Freres' (D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier François du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 279).
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