Antique & Decorative Arts - Two Day Auction Wednesday, 14 September 2022 / 10:00 am start
A 19th Century Italian Gueridon Table
Lot Details
with painted faux marble top and a gilt wood base with figural female supports and with acanthus carving to the base of the legs. The legs supported by a platform stretcher centered by a urn carved in high relief. These tables originated in France in middle of the C17th. The supports for the early Gueridon were often modelled on African , ancient Egyptian, Greek human figures. While originally a humble table for the purpose of holding a candlestick or vase, they could also be a high style decorative piece of court furniture. At Versailles there were several hundred of them and within a generation they had taken an infinity of forms ,columns, tripods, termini and mythological figures. This was a 19th Century copy of one of the Gueridon in Versailles 114cm Dia
