A near pair of Italian gilt and patinated bronze guéridon tables, after the Antique 19th century

the Greek Antique Green marble top supported by female sphinxes on lion monopodiae applied with bearded satyrs, joined by a scrolled stretcher, on concave-sided triform base,

In overall good condition, one with refreshed gilding, one with two restored legs and two restored scrolled stretchers, the other guéridon with one restored scrolled stretcher, the later marble tops with minor rim frittings.
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This lot has been based upon a Roman bronze tripod from the Temple of Isis at Pompeii, now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples, Italy. The original was the model for a tripod used at the baptism of Napoleon's son, the king of Rome in 1811 (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). Another one was offered to Empress Marie-Louise by the citizens of Milan in 1811, made mainly of lapis lazuli, and came from the workshop of Luigi and Francesco Manfredini. The Roman original was widely copied during the 18th and 19th century and was popular among Grand Tourists.

A comparable pair of guéridons has been made for the The State bedroom at Pavlovsk.

RELATED LITERATURE
H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, München1986, p. 402, fig. 5.19.1.
G.M. Richter, The Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, London 1966, p.14, fig. 1.