Gilt Bronze Pedestal with Three-legged Claw Feet

It features Renaissance Revival chased decoration all over, with strapwork, masks, arabesques, foliage and animals against a matte silver background. The body has three banded sectio...

A French ormolu-mounted kingwood Guéridon by Zwiener, Paris, circa 1890 The associated circular brèchemarble top above a frieze mounted with masks of Apollo, with one drawer and r...

Date: 19th century Origin: French Dimension: 43 1/2 in. x 14 1/4 in

A fine quality monumental pair of gilt bronze mounted marble pedestal with Corinthian capitol Origin: French Date: 19th century Dimension: 54 1/4 in x 12 1/2 in.

A substantial French gold gilt bronze pedestal column plant stand, in the Empire design style, attributed to maker, Maison Jansen, circa 20th century, France. Round top is a copper g...

A Fine Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Empire Style Two Tier Pedestal The Vert marble with a reticulated bronze gallery top leading to a tripod of legs headed by Egyptian bron...

An Incredible Russian gilt bronze Gueridon with a granite top, 19th century. The circular black painted top within a turned wood border frieze painted with laurel leaves and pink ri...

20th century, Italian bronze planter or Gueridon Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm This refined planter was made in Italy, in Naples, towards the Early 20th Century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte». It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole. The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space. This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia. The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...