19th, Circular Ormolu Bronze French Centerpiece with Mirror

Louis XVI style French gilt bronze tripod coffee table or guéridon France, late 19th century The elegant coffee table or guéridon was made in Franc...

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...

19th Century, French Marble and Gilt Bronze Centerpiece This particular centerpiece was made, in white marble and finely chiseled gilded bronze, in France between the end of the eigh...

19th Century, French Empire Gilt Bronze Centrepiece This refined centerpiece stand was crafted in France in the early 19th century, during the Empire period, from finely chiselled an...

A Fantastic Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze and Mirror Surtout De Table Circular form, cast with a grapevine bronze gallery and fruit filled centerpieces...

An exquisite and most elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. Ormolu mirrored centerpiece plateau. This stunning centerpiece is raised by fine foliate feet below lovely swaging bea...

A beautiful late 19th century gilt bronze and mirror plateau Of oval form, with a vine and grape bronze gallery, centered with a mirror...

Sizable restauration centerpiece in ormolu on four scrolling feet of foliage. The oval base is covered with a mirror that is surrounded by an open work frieze. The frieze is delicate...