Lot 298
298
An Empire style ormolu-mounted mahogany centre table
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 
An Empire style ormolu-mounted mahogany centre table

AFTER THE MODEL BY JACOB-DESMALTER, CIRCA 1900

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An Empire style ormolu-mounted mahogany centre table
After the model by Jacob-Desmalter, Circa 1900
The rectangular verde antico marble top above a frieze applied with berried laurel banding and paterae, on rectangular supports with volutes joined by a rectangular stretcher centred by a classical urn flanked by sphinxes, with four ormolu caryatid supports
32½ in. (82.5cm.) high; 59½in. (151.1cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The present table follows the design of a console double face supplied by Jacob-Desmalter for the apartment of Caroline Murat at the l'Elysee Palace in 1808, now at the Grand Trianon and illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebénistes du XIXème Siècle, 2nd ed., p.271.

Another example of this model table was sold in these rooms, 24 April 2001, lot 246 ($30,550).

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