FRENCH ORMOLU MOUNTED BURR WALNUT AND MAHAGONI GUERIDON

Description:

Last quarter 19th century, stamped Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand
H. 68 cm/D. 97 cm
The circular top above a moulded freeze on four reeded baluster legs ending in toupie feet, joined by a moulded and pierced cross shaped stretcher with bead decoration surmounted by a vase-shaped finial, stamped four times 'G. DURAND' to the underside and three times 'A.WEISSWEILER' and 'JME' and 'V' and a lily. Traces of age, rest.
From an important South German private collection, collected since the 1960s
Specialized in the manufacture of 18th Century furniture models, Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand is recorded as having worked at both 12 rue de la Cerisaie and 62 rue Saint-Antoine during the last quarter of the 19th Century. He was awarded the silver medal at the 1889 Paris Exhibition Universelle. The atelier altered its name to Durand et fils when his son joined the firm in 1890.