SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Details

A FRENCH GILT AND SILVERED-BRONZE GUERIDON
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Modelled as an athénienne with circular violet breccia marble top above lion monopedia joined by 'X'-form polished steel rods, on a concave tripartite base
31 ½ in. (80 cm.) high; 18 ½ in. (47 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This guéridon probably dating to the French Restauration period shows the neoclassical vocabulary of Percier and Fontaine as executed by Jacob-Desmalter et Cie. The lion monopodia are directly derived from antiquity showing the influence of Greek and Roman ornament and are reminiscent of the support for a Malachite basin executed by Jacob Desmalter for the Tuileries and preserved today in the Grand Trianon (see Michel Beurdeley, Geroges Jacob et son temps, Editions d'Art Monelle Hayot, Saint Rémy en l'Eau, 2002, p. 117). Although the present table athénienne is overall more elaborate, the distinctive ‘X’-form rods between the legs are very similar to those on a guéridon by Desmalter delivered in 1809 for the cabinet particulier du petit appartement de l'Impératrice at Fontainebleau (illustrated in J.P. Samoyault, Meubles entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 2004, no. 180, pp. 253-254).

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