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Mid-19th-century, a fine French Louis XVI style marble-top and gilt bronze small gueridon table. Based on a design by Adam Weisweiler.
Constructed in Grey of Belgium marble, mahogany, and amboyna with finely cast and chased gilt bronze mounts; the top tier of circular form supported on cluster legs of bamboo shape in the typical manner of Weisweiler. The columns joined by a concave-shaped lower tier of fine amboyna veneers supported by flared feet dressed with gilt bronze sabots.
This celebrated model of gueridon exemplifies the height of taste at the end of the eighteenth century. It was given by Madame du Barry (1743-1793) to the duc de Brissac, delivered by Lignereux and Daguerre. Daguerre’s inventory describes a table of corresponding description “Une petite table ronde forme de guéridon en racine de bois d’acajou poli sur trois pieds doubles en bronze doré façon de bambous avec entrejambe à tablettes et camé de porcelaine ornant la tablette supérieure prisée trois cent francs.” (Segoura, Maurice, and Patricia Lemonnier. Weisweiler. Paris: Monelle Hayot, 1983.
Measurements: H 29.13 In. – Diameter 14.56 In.
Beautiful French furniture, circa 1850-1870, in fine original condition.
