Gueridon
Gueridon has unclear origins, but the French word has come to mean something similar to “decorative candlestand.” When the word originally came into use, it tended to refer to a small table with a circular top and the distinctive feature of a central figural support. The figures were usually Moorish or Indian. The form evolved and gueridon continued to be applied to three-legged tables with figural-carved legs, and during the Louis XV and Louis XVI periods, a gueridon became what we know it as today – a small, movable table of Continental origins, often used as a lamp or candle stand.
An Empire-style mahogany gueridon. (p4a item # D9858661)
Hollie Davis, p4A Senior Editor, with additional information from The Getty’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus at http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/.