Description
*GUERIDON In patinated bronze, the uprights form chimeras on claw feet. The black granite top is engraved with palmettes, the center in scagliola in imitation of malachite decorated with a bacchanalian scene. Late 19th century. H : 78.5 cm ; Diam : 74 cm. (sold as is, accidents, missing parts). This pedestal table is to be compared with a work by the bronzemaker Ferdinand Barbedienne presented at the Exposition Universelle of 1889, based on a design by Ferdinand Levillain, himself inspired by a tripod discovered in Pompeii, preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. Bibliography. Léon de GROËR, Les Arts Décoratifs de 1790 à 1850, Paris, 1985, Edition du Chêne, n° 1 p. 14. Provenance : Larminet-Davioud Collection
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*GUERIDON In patinated bronze, the uprights form chimeras on claw feet. The black granite top is engraved with palmettes, the center in scagliola in imitation of malachite decorated with a bacchanalian scene. Late 19th century. H : 78.5 cm ; Diam : 74 cm. (sold as is, accidents, missing parts). This pedestal table is to be compared with a work by the bronzemaker Ferdinand Barbedienne presented at the Exposition Universelle of 1889, based on a design by Ferdinand Levillain, himself inspired by a tripod discovered in Pompeii, preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Naples. Bibliography. Léon de GROËR, Les Arts Décoratifs de 1790 à 1850, Paris, 1985, Edition du Chêne, n° 1 p. 14. Provenance : Larminet-Davioud Collection
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