19th Century Gueridon Centre Table with Sèvres Style Porcelain Panels

A centre table in the Louis XVI manner by Gervais Durand Constructed in mahogany, with gilt bronze ornamentation; four tapering legs with ormolu toupie feet, conjoined with an inc...

A Porcelain-Mounted Occasional Table in the Transitional Manner Attributed to Edward Holmes Baldock Constructed from kingwood and tulipwood, with ormolu mounts in the Louis XV/XVI transitional style, supported on cabriole lefs with sabot feet, the frieze decorated with eight 'Sevres' style porcelain painted panels with birds...

An Impressive 'Grand Tour' Specimen Marble Top Centre Table The base attributed to William Trotter of Edinburgh Constructed in a finely patinated mahogany, with a Florentine Pietra ...

A Grand Tour Centre Table The Top Attributed to Cesare Roccheggiani The carved gilt wood base in the manner of George Smith having four monopedia supports, each depicting leopards heads atop, with paw feet below, and conjoined by an incurved stretcher base having carved stiff leaf decoration, and raised on castors; the circular platform of marmoro nero, with a stylised Greek Key border within double Malachite reserves; the central micromosaic roundel depicts The Vatican from St Peter's Square, surrounded by eight separate roundels of The Pantheon of the Gods; the smallest of Rome's seven hills, the Capitoline; The Mauseoleum of Hadrian on the Tiber; The Roman Forum, with the remnants of the Temple of Vespasian; The Colosseum; the Temple of Vesta; The Arch of Titus, and the Tomb of Cecilia Metella. English / Italian, Circa 1875 The attribution to Cesare Roccheggiani is supported by Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, former curator of the Gilbert Collection and Honorary Curator for the Gilbert Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Provenance: From a Noble family, the 6th Earl of Macclesfield (1811-1896) then by descent. The base is similar in design to designs published by George Smith's A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808. The taste for monopedia supports was of fashion, in the Regency period and models of such were displayed in the 1851 Great Exhibition. The Macclesfield coat of arms depicts a shield with a central chevron and three leopard's faces. Views of Roman monuments was the most popular theme used by mosaicists in Rome in the beginning of the 19th century, supplying the flow of wealthy Grand tourists from Northern Europe. From small gold boxes...

Imperial center table, Frame and top mount in porcelain with Sevres style bronze Ormolu mounts and porcelain inlays, base with 3 x feet. The mag...

A Fine Sèvres-Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Centre Table The top inset with a turquoise ground central plaque of Francis I (1494-1547) at the Battle of Pavia, sig...

Royal salon table, Frame and top mount in porcelain with Sevres style bronze Ormolu mounts and porcelain inlays, base with 3 x feet. The magnifi...

This delicately detailed circular gueridon table is crafted of ormolu, and features a very fine hand painted porcelain top. The porcelain top is decorated with flowers in circular pa...