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Gueridon (drum table)
Lost Art-ID
519140
Manufaktur
Manufacture royale de porcelaine de Sèvres (Herstellung)
Formation
1740
Manufaktur
Porzellanmanufaktur Clignancurt (Frankreich) (Vollendung)
Title
Gueridon (drum table)
Dating
1810 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Wood ; Veneer (Precious wood) ; Metal ; Granite / carpentered
Height
80.00 cm
Description
Mahogany with a slab of polished granite (granite porcelain with decoration), divided crossed arrows. In medieval decor a portrait of Napoleon in Königsornat, in the curves of the fields formed portraits of Roman emperors between winged griffins. The front and back of the plate of the laurel and oak wind surrounded Imperial Monogram N. On the sides two golden motifs. The table is open on two sides down, the vacancies decorated with crossed arrows
Provenance
Around 1810 putative production of the small drum table (Gueridon). Until 1930, no secure knowledge of ownership or possession. Around 1930 Photography diseses or a very similar table in the great hall Herbertshof (Potsdamer estate Herbert W. Gutmann, banker and art collector. 1936 recording and inventory verification (until 1944) of the Gueridon at the Palais Beauharnais. Since 1961 (Return of the Palais Beauharnais as the residence of the German Ambassador in Paris) is the drum table as departmental assets owned by the Federal Foreign Office (inventory number SDJ 1).
Literature / Source
Karl Hammer, Hotel Beauharmais Paris, Artemisverlag München und Zürich, 1983 Vivian J. Rheinheimer (Hg.), Herbert M. Gutmann, Bankier in Berlin, Bauherr in Potsdam, Kunstsammler, Koehler & Amelang, 2007
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Contact
Bundesamt für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Kirchhofstraße 1-2
14776 Brandenburg
Germany
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