A Small Gueridon With A Marble Top Stamped Grohé

A beautiful and elegant blackened pearwood and Green of Genoa marble Gueridon
No missing parts or accidents, in its original condition
Stamped 4 times : GROHE FRERES
Paris, circa 1845
Height : 79,5 cm
Diameter: 63 cm

The Grohé frères opened a business manufacturing and selling furniture and objets d'art. They were noticed at the French Industry Exhibition of 1834. They moved to 30 rue de Varenne in 1841, to 88 rue de Varenne in 1855, and finally to 7 avenue de Villars in 1861.
In 1847, they founded the Grohé Frères house, managed by Guillaume, which remained active until 1884. In 1861, Jean-Michel, the oldest, retired.
They quickly became successful and became official furnishers to King Louis-Philippe I, Emperor Napoleon III and Queen Victoria...
Among their remarkable fittings is the furnishing of the petits appartements of the Château de Chantilly for Henri d'Orléans Duke of Aumale.

Among the numerous artworks preserved in museums and public collections, we can note a Commode-secrétaire, 1839, musée du Louvre, a Guéridon in ambony and bronze, around 1840, château de Fontainebleau, a Showcase, 1844, bought by the Prince Consort Albert, Royal collections, Windsor Castle, the Cradle of the Imperial Prince Louis-Napoleon offered by the city of Paris, 1856, in collaboration with the silversmith Émile Froment-Meurice, musée Carnavalet, Paris, a Centre table and sideboard in rosewood and ebony, Sèvres porcelain plate cupboard, rosewood writing table, large cylinder desk for the petits appartements of the Château de Chantilly, 1844-1846, a rosewood marquetry Piano, 1847 and the Renaissance style furniture of the chambre de marbre of the Château de Chantilly, 1880 ( musée Condé, Chantilly), two Rosewood and ebony cupboards with Sèvres enamel plates, for the Hôtel Matignon-Galliera in Paris, (now in Genoa, Musei di Strada Nuova, Palazzo Rosso). ..

The Green marble of Genoa (or Sea Green) is a type of marble based on dark green serpentine mottled with different colours, which owes its name to the shapes of its veins reminding the waves of the sea.
Its high cost has led to many imitations ("faux marble imitation Sea green"). The main quarries, located in the region of Genoa and the Alps, are now abandoned.