A mahogany library table stamped Jacob for Alphonse Jacob-Desmalter Charles X, circa 1830

the circular segmentally leather-lined top with numbers on brass plates from one to eight, above eight drawers

By repute:
Maurice Hottinguer Collection  

In overall very good condition can be placed immediately. Rare model. Some minor fading to veneer of the drawers and old minor restorations to veneer. Top now strengthened underneath internally.
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Comparative Literature:
Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle,  illustrates p. 363, an identical table by Alphonse Jacob-Desmalter, delivered in 1837 for the Salon at the Grand Trianon, (now in the Grand Trianon, Musée national du chåteau de Versailles), reproduced here in fig.1.   

An identical table featuring eight numbered drawers was made for the Queen and princesses and every residence of the d'Orléans family housed such a table.

This stamp was employed by Georges-Alphonse Jacob-Desmalter from 1830.