Gilt Bronze Gueridon, French circa 1880

List: $8,500

Gilt bronze gueridon, the circular top and conforming lower tier inset with panels of black marble. The frieze cast with a band of ornament and fitted with eagle-head ring handles, raised on three downswept supports headed by grotesque masks and terminating in paw feet, joined by an incurved stretcher centered by a foliate rosette. French, circa 1880.

Height: 29 in. (74 cm)
Diameter: 29 in. (74 cm)

Provenance: From a John Wheatman-designed Presidio Heights residence, San Francisco.