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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE TURQUOISE GLAZED
VASE
LATE 18TH/FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
The bottleneck vase with ormolu collar hung with chains, on circular foot
11æ in. (30 cm.) high, 7æ in. (19.5 cm.) diameter
$1,500-2,000

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY GUERIDON
BY DAVID ROENTGEN, CIRCA 1785
The circular rotating tilt-top with pierced wooden frieze and ormolu band,
supported on fluted column raised on stepped tripartite base, stamped
ROENTGEN to underside of stem, the stamp possibly later applied
30 in. (76 cm.) high, 25Ω in. (65 cm.) wide
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE: Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 200.
Anonymous sale; Poulaine le Fur, Hôtel des Ventes du Palais, Palais des The curious stepped silhouette of the legs of this table is unlike anything
Congrès, Paris, 22 June 2000, lot 88 (FF 580.000). found on comparable pieces by Roentgen but it echoes the outline of the
much-used and favored staircase-like drawers found in the interiors of many
With its beautifully figured mahogany timber, fine ormolu mounts, and
of Roentgen’s rolltop desks, such as the famous Apollo desk in the Hermitage
overall pure form inspired by contemporaneous English tripod tables, this
Museum, the one at Chatsworth, another one in the J. Paul Getty Museum,
elegant guéridon is a product typical to the workshop of David Roentgen in
and one in the collection of the Klassik Stiftung, Weimar, see ibid., pp.154,
the late eighteenth century. A particularly interesting feature of this work
167, 206, and 214, respectively. This motif is also widely use by Roentgen
that distinguished it from contemporaneous similar French models is the
on the exterior of his pieces, including many of his well-known caskets
inventive wooden gallery that Roentgen used in lieu of a gilt bronze gallery.
and and desks at Pavlovsk and Gatchina, see J. M. Greber, Abraham und
Roentgen is known to have produced similar models in various sizes, some of
David Roentgen: Möbel für Europa, Starnberg, 1980, vol. 2, pp. 306 and 326,
which were used to serve tea or small meals in intimate domestic settings.
respectively. A similar table with identical wooden gallery comparable stem,
Its similarity with late Louis XVI guéridons, the French provenance of most
and stamped by Roentgen is illustrated Koeppe, op. cit., p. 201. This table
surviving comparable examples, and the presence of a maker’s stamp
and two similar examples found in a North American private collection also
suggest that Roentgen’s workshop produced these tables for the French, and
share almost identical figuring to the mahogany top; another characteristic
possibly Russian, markets, see W. Koeppe, ed., Extravagant Inventions: The
reinforcing the attribution of this lot to the Roentgen workshop.