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An Empire style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany veneered console, late 19th century

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3,000 - 5,000 EUR

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Description

the front legs as antique female figures on columns, the back with a mirror, with a black Belgian marble top, bearing a spurious stamp JACOB D / RUE MESLEE


Height 34 1/2 in., width 54 1/2 in., depth 18 3/4 in. ; Haut. 87,5 cm, larg. 138,5 cm, prof. 47,5 cm

RELATED LITERATURE:

M. Beurdeley, Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son Temps, Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau, 2002, p. 97

Michael Beurdeley, in Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son Temps, p. 97, illustrates a console table by Jacob-Desmalter, with gilt-bronze female figures very similar in conception to those on the present console, which is a later copy of this model. The original console table was in the bedroom of Caroline Murat in 1808 at the Élysée Palace during the Empire period, and is now held in the Trianon. The design of these caryatids is most likely the work of the Empire's official architects and ornamentalists, Charles Percier and Pierre-François Léonard Fontaine.


A very similar table was sold at Sotheby's, London, Collection of Gianni Versace, 18 March 2009, lot 260.



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