Lot 542

An unusual Regency style cast iron gueridon

Auction: 26 September 2007 at 11:00 BST
£1,200
Description
the circular top with flat edge, inset with a central bronzed medallion depicting Virgil reading to seated figures beneath a flaming brazier inscribed: VIRGILIVS APVD MECENATEM TVA MECENAS HAVD MOLLIA JVSSA, the fluted Ionic-style column surmounted by a winged sphinx and applied with a small figure of a lizard with prey between its jaws above an anthemion cast surbase of three inscrolling monopaediae with claw feet on a triform plinth base
Dimensions
36cm diameter, 76cm high
