A Fine French Empire Mahogany Music Stand

A fine Empire style gilt bronze mahogany gueridon or centre table  With a verde antico marble top.  In the manner of Jacob-Desmalter,  circa 1880 Height 31 1/4 Diameter 35 in.   A very fine Empire style gilt bronze-mounted mahogany guéridon after a model by Jacob-Desmalter, the circular verde antico marble top above a mahogany frieze mounted with laurel leaf banding in between rosettes and anthemions, supported of the heads of three finely cast gilt bronze female caryatids, each facing outward with hair in plaits, bare feet and arms crossed, wearing arm bands and a low cut diaphanous dress gathered up toward her breast, the stretcher centred by a chased covered urn flanked by three elegant crouching winged sphinxes wearing Nemes headdresses and plaits tied at the front. The design for this superb guéridon is based on a famous table-console or ‘console double face’ by the celebrated firm of Paris ébénistes Jacob-Desmalter which was itself based on designs by Napoleon’s chief architects and ornamentalistes Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine...

The stand decorated with painted panels and pen work, the hinged top with a painted panel opening to a compartment, on a pen work base with cabriole legs, on pad feet.

Am American Empire solid mahogany hand carved adjustable music stand with hand painted gilt decoration/ The graceful double sided stand with elaborate gold decoration on an adjustabl...

Fabulous mahogany double sided adjustable music stand. Carved violin neck scroll base with a lyre top that oufits two musicians. Brass pole that is adjustable allowing the height of...