GUERIDON AUX GRIFFONS DE LA FIN DE L`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI - photo 1

GUERIDON AUX GRIFFONS DE LA FIN DE L`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

Lot 94
23.11.2021 10:00UTC +01:00
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€ 237 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 679156
Lot 94 | GUERIDON AUX GRIFFONS DE LA FIN DE L'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 100 000 – 200 000
GUERIDON AUX GRIFFONS DE LA FIN DE L'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

ATTRIBUE A FRANCOIS REMOND, VERS 1785

En bronze ciselé et doré et bronze patiné, le dessus de marbre bleu turquin ceint d'une galerie à décor d'une frise de putti retenant des guirlandes de pampres, le piètement tripode à tête de satyre, réunis par une bague et terminés par des griffons, la base à section triangulaire concave soulignée de cannelures, le socle en marbre associé de section identique ceinte d'une frise de feuilles d'acanthe, le revers du plateau avec une étiquette du XIXe siècle inscrite I35 ; restaurations, élément central manquant, quelques rayures au plateau

H.: 81,5 cm. (32 in.) ; D.: 63,5 cm. (25 in.)







Provenance

Collection Helena Rubenstein, Sotheby's, New York, 22-23 avril 1966, lot 501;

Collection John Dorrance, Sotheby's, New York, 18-19 octobre 1989, lot 822.





Literature

BIBLIOGRAPHIE COMPARATIVE :

"Un appartement où règnent la fantaisie et la curiosité", in Connaissance des Art n. 30 (août 1954), ill. p. 19

J. Messelet, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 1936, p. 35, cat. 134.

N. Gasc et G. Mabille, Le musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 1991, p. 63.

S. Slesin, Helena Rubinstein: Over the Top, New York, 2003, pp. 96-97.

S. Legrand-Rossi, Le mobilier du musée Nissim de Camondo, Dijon, 2012, p. 142-143, cat. 52.





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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND MARBLE GUERIDON, ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS REMOND, CIRCA 1785
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze, Marble, Stone
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