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A 19th century Italian gueridon table, with painted faux marble…
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Wellington
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14-Sep-2022
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A 19th century Italian gueridon table, 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 17th century. 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, 114 cm deepia
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Furniture: Tables - zOther