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Lot 221 Dα

A rare Empire gueridon with a basket inset

Auction 1169 - overview Berlin
24.04.2021, 11:00 - Prussian Sale
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 3.750 € (incl. premium)
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A rare Empire gueridon with a basket inset

Solid walnut (possibly stained) and walnut and mahogany veneer on softwood. The round, finely woven basket set into a veneered wooden ring supported by three curved legs terminating in anthropomorphic lion's heads and paw feet on a tripod base. With minor losses to the veneer and one open shrinkage crack to the base. H 78.5, D c. 60 cm.
1st quarter 19th C.

Provenance

By repute, the table originates from Berlin. North German private collection.

Literature

Cf. Schmitz, Deutsche Möbel des Klassizismus, Stuttgart 1923, p. 171 for a gueridon attributed to E. Spannsail of Stuttgart that was presumably based on Italian models. Cf. also a similar table of square section formerly housed in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in the toilette room of Tzarina Elisabeth Alexejevna, née Princess of Baden (cat. Interieurs der Biedermeierzeit. Zimmeraquarelle aus fürstlichen Schlössern im Besitz des Hauses Hessen, Eichenzell 2004, no. 85).