A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Gueridon

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Object Description

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Gueridon With a Green Breccia Marble Top, After the Model by Adam Weisweiller.

Of very fine quality, this elegant gueridon has a circular green breccia marble top within a pierced anthemion cast gallery above three pairs of simulated bamboo columns headed by classical Egyptian mascarons, the columns are united by a tripartite stretcher surmounted by a circular dish and terminating in cast bun feet.

French, Circa 1890.

Object History

Adam Weisweiler was German-born. Although scholars know nothing about his apprenticeship and early training, records show that he was established in Paris in 1777, the year he was married. He became a maître-ébéniste in 1778, and set up his workshop in the unfashionable quarter of Paris on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and worked mainly for the marchands merciers. These middlemen, such as Dominique Daguerre, would then sell Weisweiler’s works to members of the French court, including Queen Marie-Antoinette, the king of Naples, and England’s Prince Regent (later George IV).

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