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WELCOME TO PELHAM GALLERIES |
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| A Fine Directoire Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Guéridon
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Circa 1800
Height: 2 ft. 5 in. (74 cm)
Diameter: 2 ft. 5 in. (74 cm)
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The circular bleu turquin marble top with a pierced ormolu gallery above a mahogany and ebony veneered frieze inlaid with brass stringing and lozenges, above a lower bleu turquin marble tier with a tooled ormolu banding, raised on three carved and bronzed wood legs in the form of gryphons ending in paw feet on castors.
The design of this handsome table is strongly influenced by the work of the leading Parisian ébéniste Bernard Molitor (1755-1833). Similar simulated bronze gryphon legs appear on another guéridon attributed to Molitor, illustrated in Ulrich Leben, Molitor. Ebéniste from the Ancien Régime to the Bourbon Restoration (London 1992), p. 198, no. 107. A design for a related guéridon with gryphon legs, described as a ‘table de déjeuner’, appears in plate 49 of Pierre de La Mésangère’s influential pattern book Meubles et Objets de Goût (1802), illustrated in Serge Grandjean, Empire Furniture (London 1966), plate 17.
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