Empire Gueridon
EMPIRE STYLE
From 1804–15, Napoléon I reigned as the emperor of France, bringing the country into a new era of opulence after the fall of the monarchy and the tumultuous years of the French Revolution. He declared, “We must have very solid things, made to last 100 years.” Empire-style furniture followed suit, with imposing pieces constructed from mahogany and adorned with gilded ornaments. Expanding on the neoclassicism popularized in the previous century — such as in Louis XVI style — Empire style borrowed from the great civilizations of antiquity, from Egypt to Greece and Rome, to connect this nascent empire to the power of the past.
Napoléon I believed the production of fine furniture would reflect the stature of the republic, with his official architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine leading the way with their work on his residences.
Luxurious materials, symmetrical shapes and bold colors characterize antique Empire-style bedroom furniture, armchairs, cabinets and other structures, with frequent motifs including mythological creatures, geometric designs, acanthus leaves, eagles, bees (the imperial emblem) and swans, a favorite of Empress Joséphine.
Flat surfaces, like marble tabletops, were accented with decadent details, such as the bronze furniture mounts made by sculptor Pierre-Philippe Thomire for the French palaces. Martin-Guillaume Biennais, who worked as the imperial goldsmith, crafted intricate luxury objects that mixed wood, fine metal, mother-of-pearl and ivory. Ormolu — or elaborate bronze gilding — was essential to French design in the 18th and 19th centuries as a cornerstone of the neoclassical and Empire styles.
The style became popular abroad, influencing the American Empire style. Stately pieces carved with sprigs of olives by cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellange were acquired by American President James Monroe for the White House in 1817.
Find a collection of antique Empire tables, lighting, seating and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Empire
19th C. Gueridon Table
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
Antique French Brass & Black Marble Round Gueridon Table in the Empire Taste with Eagle Ring Handles and Talon Feet, late 19th century
Category
1890s French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Brass
A French Empire Mahogany Gueridon with a Gray Marble Top
Located in New York, NY
The light gray fossilized marble top supported on center column on a tripod base.
Category
1820s French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
Empire Gueridon, France, Early 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Three-legged table on casters with carved eagle heads and hooves as well as amphora decoration on the trefoil strutting. This, like the frame, is inlaid with brass threads. A low gal...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Mahogany
French Marble-Top Gueridon Table or Guéridon in the Empire Style
Located in Austin, TX
A handsome French round gueridon table or gue´ridon (17" diameter), in the Empire style featuring a circular top of figured black marble set upon a tripod column support of mahogany ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Metal, Brass
Italian Empire Style Beech Wood Round Pedestal Table
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Rare and fine quality Italian empire style round pedestal table in beech wood. The top is supported by three pairs of refined columns. In the lower part the columns end with a deligh...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Empire Gueridon
Materials
Beech
French 19th Century Empire Gueridon
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This 19th century Empire gueridon is the perfect addition to any home decor style. Beautiful, black fossil marble tops the rich mahogany base, the marble has been professionally repa...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
1890's French Marble Pedestal Table
Located in Paris, FR
A chic antique pedestal table from the end of the 19th century period designed with tripod legs and hand-sculpted brass details. This beautiful French side table is composed of solid...
Category
1890s French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
French 19th Century Empire Style Gueridon
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th Century French mahogany marble topped Gueridon, having three circular tapering column supports, each with gilded ormolu capitals and classical ormolu motifs to th...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
French 19th Century Empire Petite Gueridon
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A handsome Empire style petite gueridon hand-crafted in France during the 19th century from beautifully patinated mahogany. Topped with a thick black stone showcasing gray spherical ...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
Antique Gueridon Table Empire with Bronze Details
Located in Buxton, GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this French Gueridon Table
Mahogany Veneer
Empire Style
Green Marble Top (Repaired Professionally)
Bronze Details
Circle Table Top
Circa 190...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Bronze Ormolu Swan Koi Fish Empire Wood Marble Round Table
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning table you could hope to find. This is an ultra-rare opportunity to acquire what is, unequivocally, the best of the best, it bein...
Category
19th Century Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Napoleon III Walnut Wood Rounded Coffee Table with Black Central Leg
Located in IT
Napoleon III Walnut Wood Rounded Coffee Table with Black Central Leg
19th century Italian Napoleon III rounded coffee table in walnut wood.
Central black leg and three black lit...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Walnut
Stunning Gueridon Table, hand carved Dolphin, second Empire, ~1900, Italy
Located in Wien, AT
Stunning rare side table, so called Gueridon, from the second Empire, made around 1900 in Italy.
This elaborate structure of the table is composed of a round base with small extens...
Category
1890s Italian Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Mahogany, Spruce
French Mahogany Empire Style Gueridon
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A pierced brass gallery surrounds the round, white marble top on this terrific 19th Century French Empire style gueridon. The top is lifted by three column-form legs that are joined ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Brass
19th Swedish Empire Marble Top Gueridon Table
Located in Madrid, ES
Gueridón table with marble top from the Empire period, Swedish work from the early 19th century, in cherry wood and ebonized wood, the top is supported on winged lions and a triangu...
Category
Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Brass
Pair of 19th Century French Marble Top Carved Burl Walnut Gueridon Tables
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a living room or den with this elegant pair of antique round gueridons. Crafted in France circa 1870, each fruit wood table stands on three cabriole legs decorated with bron...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Empire-Style Marquetry Inlaid Mahogany and Bronze Center Table
Located in Houston, TX
This table is circular, banded with an egg-and-dart gadroon
Carved edge and fine marquetry inlay, supported by a polished
Bronze reeded column, mounted to a triangular-form platfor...
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Mid-20th Century French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Mahogany
French Empire Walnut Wood Rounded Coffee Table White Marble from Carrara Top
Located in IT
Empire Mahogany Wood Rounded Coffee Table with White Marble from Carrara Top
19th century Italian Empire rounded coffee table in mahogany wood.
Original Bronze details such as ...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Empire Gueridon
Materials
Carrara Marble
French 19th Century Empire Style Round Table
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This wonderful 19th century Empire table is the perfect addition to any home decor style. Beautiful, black Belgian granite - in great conditi...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Brass
Empire-Style Gueridon, 2nd Half 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Empire style gueridon with three legs and trefoil base. The legs are decorated with caryatid-herms. The tabletop is made of a dark gray marble with red ve...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Brass
Italian Empire Style Burl Wood Gueridon with Carved Swan Motif
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Empire style occasional side table or tea table
Italy, 20th century
Carved maple base in swan motif, with burl wood top.
Measures: 16" W x 16" D x 22.25" H.
Ve...
Category
20th Century Italian Empire Gueridon
Materials
Maple, Burl
Fine 19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Plaque Topped Gueridon
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century French gilt bronze and porcelain plaque gueridon table. Napoleon hand painted with the Royal Vienna beehive mark. Signed.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
Tavolino in marmo con intarsi base legno fatta a mano in Italia disponibile
Located in Rimini, IT
Cream marble round dining table or gueridon table
size: diam. 80 cm h. 74
inches 31.50 h. 29.13
This table has been handcrafted by skilled artist using the old technique
of the sca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
Fine French Gilt Bronze and Marble Gueridon
Located in Atlanta, GA
Very fine early 20th century French Empire style gueridon table of gilt bronze and marble. A circular tabletop of black marble with white veining is held by a decorative ribbed banding. The gilt bronze frame is comprised of three downswept legs topped with intricate eagles heads and terminate into hoofed feet. In addition, it supports a lower black marble shelf...
Category
Early 20th Century French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Important Somno in Mahogany 19th Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Rare important Somno from the Empire period entirely in Mahogany veneer from Cuba and featuring a gray marble
It is unusual to find a somno of this size since it is larger than the ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century French Mahogany Gueridon or Game Table
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century French Empire Period mahogany gueridon, or game table, with Grey St. Anne marble top. A versatile table with removeable top, one side with green felt and the other wit...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Brass
Pair of 19th Century Empire Style Dore Bronze and Sienna Marble Top Gueridons
Located in New York, NY
A Pair of 19th Century Empire Style Dore Bronze and Siena Marble Top Gueridons. The dore bronze bases are beautifully cast, hand-chased and hand-chiseled. The bottom of each table is...
Category
1860s French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
Empire Pedestal Table with Its Saint-Anne Marble
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb empire pedestal table with its Saint-Anne marble
Pedestal table or center table with a pyramidal base ending with claw feet simulating dolphin heads
Very beautiful origina...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Mahogany
Gueridon French Empire
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gueridon French Empire
built in bronze, green onyx and marble
the base is green onyx and its top is red and green marble
circa 1900.
Category
Early 1900s Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Empire Style Gilt Bronze and Faux Green Marble Gueridon Tables
Located in New York, NY
Pair Gilt Bronze and Faux green marble Empire style Gueridon Tables.
Provenance: From appleTV series, "Dickinson".
Category
20th Century French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Composition, Bronze
Gueridon Empire Cherry Alabaster Italy \'800
Located in Milano, IT
Gueridon supported by three uprights carved with lion feet and in the upper part with caryatids, to support the undertop band. The female figures are standing, dressed according to t...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Alabaster
French 19th Century Empire Style Porphyry Marble Top Center Table
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive good quality 19th Century French Empire influenced Gueridon, having a rare Porphyry marble top, wonderful hand carved gilt wood decoration to the frieze of Oak leav...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Porphyry
French 1870s Empire Style Walnut Table with Vitrine Top and Corinthian Columns
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Empire style walnut gueridon table from the late 19th century, with vitrine top, corinthian columns, ebonized and gilt accents. Born in France dur...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Wood, Glass, Walnut, Giltwood
Center/Entry Table in Brass and Wood by La Barge
By La Barge
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful center or entry table designed and manufactured in the Philippines by La Barge.
The table has beautiful carved frame and solid brass accents with a glass top that allows t...
Category
1990s Philippine Empire Gueridon
Materials
Brass
Pair of French Neoclassical Style Malachite and Gilt Bronze Side Tables
Located in London, GB
Pair of French neoclassical style malachite and gilt bronze side tables
French, 20th century
Dimensions: Height 85cm, diameter 50cm
These striking octagonal guéridons are crafte...
Category
20th Century French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
Pair of Empire Gilt and Patinated and Mahogany Veneered Wood Gueridons
Located in Stockholm, SE
A pair of Empire gilt and patinated wood and mahogany veneered Gueridons, early 19th century.
Category
Early 19th Century European Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Wood
Ebonised French Gueridon
Located in Houston, TX
Ebonised French Gueridon with Fossil marble top on 3 oblong bun feet. Metal detail on each of the three columns along the top and the bottom.
Category
Early 20th Century European Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
French Empire Period Gueridon
Located in Dublin, GB
A stylish figured mahogany French gueridon, the original fossil limestone top resting on an Ormolu mounted frieze, above a smart cylindrical column, to a plate-form base with a circu...
Category
1830s French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Limestone, Ormolu
Maison Jansen Gueridon Occasional Table Verre Églomisé Glass Inset Circular Top
Located in Stamford, CT
French Empire style mahogany and parcel-gilt gueridon occasional table, the circular top with verre Églomisé glass inset, atop a single pedestal supported by squared block base. By M...
Category
1940s Argentine Vintage Empire Gueridon
Materials
Glass, Wood
Fine 19th Century French Gilt Bronze and Marble Gueridon
Located in Dallas, TX
Very fine 19th century French gilt bronze and marble gueridon with gilt bronze eagles heads and pawed feet.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Bronze
King Louis Philippe Period Marble-Top Center hall entrance Table Gueridon 19th
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Elegant French Louis Philippe marble-top center table mid-19th century. A fantastic marble top mahogany center Hall table. Superb quality shown in the bulbous and reed carved column,...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Mahogany
An Exceptional French Empire Period Mahogany Pedestal / Centre Table, Circa 1815
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The original fossilized black marble circular top over a conforming frieze of richly figured crotch mahogany, mounted upon a stunning flame-mahogany tri-corner base accented with thr...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
Two Neoclassical Style Wooden Guéridons with Gilt Bronze Mounts
Located in London, GB
These wonderful guéridons are designed in the Empire style—named as such because it flourished in the period when Napoleon I was Emperor of France. The style employed Imperial Roman ...
Category
20th Century French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
George Jacob Desmalter Empire Gueridon Round center Table Estampille 19th C. LA
Located in West Hollywood, CA
George Jacob Desmalter Empire Gueridon Round center Table Estampille 19th C. LA . Rare Exquisite Early 19th century Empire Gueridon with classic...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Empire Style Gueridon in the Manner of Jacob-Desmalter, circa 1880
By François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Empire style gilt-bronze and mahogany gueridon, with a Verde antico marble top, in the manner of Jacob-Desmalter.
French, circa 1880.
The circular Verde antico marble ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Empire Influenced Centre Table, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century Empire influenced marble topped guéridon, having a brass gallery, gilded ormolu mounts of flowers, leaves, berries and plaques. Raised on four square tape...
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
French Ormolu Bronze Malachite and White Marble Gueridon Table, circa 1870
Located in New York, NY
A French Ormolu bronze malachite and white marble Gueridon table, in the Empire style,
circa 1870
The circular top supported on three bronze winged female...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Malachite, Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
French Empire Guéridon and Marble Table
Located in New York, NY
French Empire-style (19th Century) mahogany and bronze guéridon table on triple swan leg platform with stretcher, gallery, and green marble top.
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Empire Influenced Gueridon
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality 19th century burr walnut French Empire influenced gueridon / centre table. Having classical gilded ormolu mounts to the frieze and ca...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Italian Giltwood and Marble Top Occasional Table
Located in London, GB
A good centre table in the Italian impero manner
Constructed in carved gold leaf giltwood, and having a St Jean brecciated marble top; of circular form, the tripartite base of canin...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
Incredible Russian Gilt Bronze Gueridon with a Granite Top, 19th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An Incredible Russian gilt bronze Gueridon with a granite top, 19th century.
The circular black painted top within a turned wood border frieze painted with laurel leaves and pink ri...
Category
Mid-19th Century Russian Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Granite, Bronze
Pair of French Empire Style Round Bronze Gueridon Tables
Located in New York, NY
Pair of French Empire style round bronze three-legged gueridon tables with eagle heads and inlaid marble top and triangular platform base.
Category
20th Century French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Fine Empire Style Gilt Bronze Mahogany Center Table inthe Manner of Jacob-Desmal
By Jacob-Desmalter
Located in Sheffield, MA
A fine Empire style gilt bronze mahogany gueridon or centre table
With a verde antico marble top.
In the manner of Jacob-Desmalter,
circa 1880
Height 31 1/4 Diameter 35 in.
A very fine Empire style gilt bronze-mounted mahogany guéridon after a model by Jacob-Desmalter, the circular verde antico marble top above a mahogany frieze mounted with laurel leaf banding in between rosettes and anthemions, supported of the heads of three finely cast gilt bronze female caryatids, each facing outward with hair in plaits, bare feet and arms crossed, wearing arm bands and a low cut diaphanous dress gathered up toward her breast, the stretcher centred by a chased covered urn flanked by three elegant crouching winged sphinxes wearing Nemes headdresses and plaits tied at the front.
The design for this superb guéridon is based on a famous table-console or ‘console double face’ by the celebrated firm of Paris ébénistes Jacob-Desmalter which was itself based on designs by Napoleon’s chief architects and ornamentalistes Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine...
Category
1880s French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
Empire Style Satinwood End Table / Gueridon with Carved and Gilt Guirlandes
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique handcrafted and hand-carved end table.
This Empire style, satinwood end table is beautifully made and very stylish. The finely, hand-carved and gilt wooden guirlandes really ...
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Early 20th Century French Empire Gueridon
Materials
Wood, Satinwood
French Gilt and Marble Occasional Table in the Empire Style
By Jacob Frères
Located in London, GB
A fine gueridon in the Empire manner after a model by Jacob Freres.
Based on designs by Percier and Fontaine.
Of circular form, constructed in Amboyna, rising from giltwood bun feet, the platform base of tripartite incurved form, centered with a fire gilt bronze waisted vase...
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19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Empire Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany Center Table
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Attributed to Chapuis. The later circular black marble top above a frieze mounted with stylized laurel branches centered by flowerheads, raised on three square tapering legs surmount...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Empire Walnut Gueridon with Grey Marble Top & Pedestal Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
19th Century French Empire Walnut Gueridon with Grey Marble Top & Pedestal Base
Category
19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble
French Empire Mahogany Gueridon Table with Marble Top
Located in CABA, AR
Elevate your living space with the timeless elegance of this French Empire mahogany center table, exuding grandeur and sophistication. Adorned with exquisite bronze appliqués typica...
Category
Early 19th Century French Antique Empire Gueridon
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Empire gueridon for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Empire gueridon for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage gueridon created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, stone and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Empire gueridon made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original gueridon, popular names associated with this style include Baker Furniture Company, Cupioli made in Italy, Jacob Desmalter, and La Barge. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for gueridon differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,099 and tops out at $85,000 while the average work can sell for $6,500.
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