Gold-patinated gueridon based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel with a three-legged stand, inspired by the tripods of the Herculaneum. The shaft is fluted and ends in three bird-like arms with claws that support the round table top and grip the rounded edge of the table. The table top is inlaid with different, multi-coloured types of stone using the pietra dura technique.

See J. Sievers, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Die Möbel, Berlin 1950, fig. 58 (Prinz Alberecht Palace), formerly at A. Stahlmach art dealers, exhibited and illustrated in Orangerie'82, p. 160.