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A similar table de milieu, executed in 1808, is illustrated in Denis Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébénistes du XIXìeme Siècle, 1984, p. 271.
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AN EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE DE MILIEU
IN THE MANNER OF JACOB DESMALTER
With a rectangular verde antico marble top above a frieze applied with laurel leaves on ormolu female caryatid supports and rectangular supports applied with anthemion, on an H-shaped plinth centering an urn flanked by sphinx's--33in. (83.3cm.) high, 47½in. (119cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep
IN THE MANNER OF JACOB DESMALTER
With a rectangular verde antico marble top above a frieze applied with laurel leaves on ormolu female caryatid supports and rectangular supports applied with anthemion, on an H-shaped plinth centering an urn flanked by sphinx's--33in. (83.3cm.) high, 47½in. (119cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep