A French ebony and fruitwood inlaid burr maple guéridon table, stamped Henry Dasson 1879

the rectangular gilt-bronze-banded top inset with a Sèvres diaper shaped dish decorated with sprays of summer flowers on a white ground within a gilt-bronze foliate border, above a panelled frieze applied with gilt-bronze drapery with a push-button drawer, on fluted legs terminating in spirally fluted gilt-bronze sabots joined by two shelves with gilt-bronze trelliswork galleries, the whole with ebony and fruitwood stringing

In overall good conserved condition. Old minor marks, chips and scratches commensurate with age and normal usage. There is a horizontal hairline construction crack in two shelves which can easily be filled or left according to taste. There is a small horizontal hairline crack in the side of the rear left block above the foot which is hardly noticeable.
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Henry Dasson (1825–1896) was one of the finest Parisian bronzier-ébénistes of the nineteenth century. The works he created are remarkable especially for the quality of the gilt-bronze mounts, seen on this lot in the turned tapering sabots and the trellised galleries. Dasson was an exhibitor at the Expositions Universelles in 1878 and 1889. The present guéridon demonstrates the high quality and elegance usually associated with Dasson’s work.