A FRENCH NEOCLASSIC PATINATED-BRONZE HEXAGONAL GUERIDON

FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH NEOCLASSIC PATINATED-BRONZE HEXAGONAL GUERIDON
First half 19th Century
The later hexagonal inset serpentine green marble top over a circular stem, on hipped leaf-sheathed anthropomorphic legs and claw feet, with a label Lockson London and New York
30in. (76cm.) high, 25½in. (65cm.) wide

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Please note that the consignor of this lot has decided to donate a portion of their proceeds to the New York Police and Fireman, Widows & Children's Benefit Fund.

Lot Essay

The ultimate design source for the base to this table can be traced to an antiquity unearthed in Naples, though during the Neoclassic period they were internationally admired and copied. For example, a drawing by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) of furniture proposed for the Neuen Pavillion at Charlottenburg illustrates a remarkably similar table (see Karl Friedrich Schinkel: 1781-1841, exhib. cat. Staatliche Museen, Berlin, 23 October 1980 - 29 March 1981, p. 226-227, cat. no. 351).

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