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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRINCELY COLLECTION (LOTS 7-9)
AN EMPIRE PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND MICROMOSAIC GUERIDON
THE MICROMOSAIC TOP ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO AGUATTI, CIRCA 1815, THE BASE ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDRE GUERIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820
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AN EMPIRE PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND MICROMOSAIC GUERIDON
THE MICROMOSAIC TOP ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO AGUATTI, CIRCA 1815, THE BASE ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDRE GUERIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820
The circular top centred by a rectangular image of the Rape of Europa, surrounded by four vases emblematical of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, joined by scrolling foliage, surrounded by an ivy and entwined ribbon border, above a frieze finely tooled with a trellis of rosettes, bordered to the top and bottom by a leaftip and palmette motif, above three tripod legs, headed by winged sphynxes emerging from lotus leaves, above a scrolled acanthus, joined by a stretcher decorated with stars, rosettes and palmettes, terminating in outscrolled leaves supported by gathered berries, the tripod plinth centred by a rosette, with a leaftip moulding, on castors
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) diameter
THE MICROMOSAIC TOP ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO AGUATTI, CIRCA 1815, THE BASE ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDRE GUERIN, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1820
The circular top centred by a rectangular image of the Rape of Europa, surrounded by four vases emblematical of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, joined by scrolling foliage, surrounded by an ivy and entwined ribbon border, above a frieze finely tooled with a trellis of rosettes, bordered to the top and bottom by a leaftip and palmette motif, above three tripod legs, headed by winged sphynxes emerging from lotus leaves, above a scrolled acanthus, joined by a stretcher decorated with stars, rosettes and palmettes, terminating in outscrolled leaves supported by gathered berries, the tripod plinth centred by a rosette, with a leaftip moulding, on castors
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) diameter
来源
Almost certainly Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden,
thence by descent to the present owner.
thence by descent to the present owner.
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Thomas Williams
International Head of English Furniture & Clocks