Object Description
A Superb Gueridon Centre Table
With Sèvres Style Porcelain Panels
Constructed from bois noirci and kingwood with mercury fire gilded ornament, the central support rising from a tripartite plinth base on oblate bun feet and surmounted with three winged trumpet-wielding putti, the circular platform top with an ormolu guilloche frieze and lambrequin details, housing a suite of Sèvres style hand-painted porcelain panels, the largest central panel showing a lady at her toilette, surrounded by a further six circular panels of royal portraits interspersed with six trapezoidal panels showing genre scenes of courtship, all within ormolu borders and crossbanded kingwood reserves.
French, circa 1870