Guéridon porte-lumières formant table à ouvrage en placage de bois de rose et monture de bronze ciselé et doré d'époque Louis XVI, estampillé RVLC

le plateau en marbre ceint d'une galerie ajourée, reposant sur un fût exagonal muni d'une corbeille doublée en zinc non garnie, terminé par un piètement quadripode

Illustration is slightly too clear, the varnish has turned dark actually. A small chip and one 10 cm crack on the marble top. Giltbronze rim is rubbed and tarnished. The basket is a little loose: please note it is not lined with metal but with a fabric which is now burnt and torn. One minor loss to the veneer on the basket rim; another one to to the base of the stand. As expected, some dents to the feet; one patched restoration to the veneer and a crack restored on one foot. Refined piece of furniture; one very similar model in the Wrightsman collection (Metropolitan Museum, New York).
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Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix, ébéniste reçu maître en 1755

Un guéridon de forme identique au nôtre mais décoré d'une marqueterie légèrement plus riche et muni d'un plateau en marqueterie est conservé au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York dans les collections Wrightsman (1). Son fût est aussi ajustable en hauteur grâce à un système à crémaillère. Ce musée conserve un autre modèle plus décoré et pourvu d'un plateau en porcelaine. Ces deux exemples ne sont pas estampillés et F.J.B. Watson les attribue à Martin Carlin. Les corbeilles sont recouvertes d'un tabisse ou d'un taffetas plissée.

Parmi les autres modèles comparables au nôtre, citons:
- un guéridon estampillé par Carlin, ancienne collection Thelma Chrysler Foy, vente Parke-Bernet, New York, Part I , 16 mai 1959, lot 321
- un guéridon muni d'un plateau de marbre, vente Galerie Charpentier, Paris, le 10 décembre 1957, lot 157
- un guéridon de la collection René Fribourg, vente Sotheby's Londres, les 17-18 octobre 1963, lot 811

(1) F.J.B. Watson, The Wrighstman Collection, Tome I, New York, 1966, p. 211.