Lot Essay
This guéridon-stand, conceived as a Roman tripod altar with tazza-bowl top, relates to a pattern in C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Recueil de Décorations Intérieures of 1801. A pair of such marble-topped guéridons attributed to the ébéniste Bernard Molitor (D.1833) was commissioned in Paris by King Jerome of Westphalia (U. Leben, Molitor, London, 1990, p.203, no. 145), while the form was also adopted for a vide-poche pattern of 1819 issued by La Messangère (pl.220).