Gueridon Centre Table With Porcelain Panels, circa 1870

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

Dimensions: H: 29.5 in / 74 cm  |  Dia: 42 in / 106 cm

Literature:

Christopher Payne. 19th century European furniture. Antique Collector's Club, 2013, p. 220 (illus.), showing a related table.