FURNITURE & WORKS OF ART
9944 A Regency style bronze and marble-topped gueridon after the model of Vulliamy, the circular white marble top within a burr-elm border with bronze edge mount, supported by three patinated bronze figures, ‘The Weeping Women’, on a circular patinated and gilt bronze pedestal with swags between bucrania, with a burr-elm stepped plinth.
English?
Mid-20th century
Diameter: 24 ins (61 cms)
Height: 31 ins (79 cms) £15,000
The main support for this gueridon is copied from ‘The Weeping Women’ candelabra designed in 1811 and supplied to the Prince Regent in 1814 for Carlton House for £350. They were removed to Buckingham Palace in 1837 where they remain.
