A pair of Empire Revival ormolu-mounted mahogany console tables

AFTER THE MODEL BY JACOB-DESMALTER, CIRCA 1890

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A pair of Empire Revival ormolu-mounted mahogany console tables
After the model by Jacob-Desmalter, Circa 1890
Each with rectangular molded verde antico marble top, above a laurel-cast frieze, supported on a pair of female caryatid uprights on projecting base, the mirrored back fronted to the center with a seated sphinx
33in. (84.5cm.) high; 49.7/8in. (126.7cm.) wide; 14.1/8in. (35.8cm.) deep
Jacob-Desmalter, F.-H.-G. (after) (2)

Lot Essay

The present pair of console tables relates closely to a console double face designed in 1808 by Franois-Honor-Georges Jacob dit Jacob-Desmalter (d.1841) for the bedroom of Caroline Murat at the palais de l'Elyse, Paris. Originally with a top inlaid with a mosaic copied from Herculaneum, but later replaced with a marble slab, Jacob-Desmalter's table is now in the Grand Trianon, Paris (see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et objets d'art, Vol. I, Paris, 1975, pp. 25).

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