Lot 246
246
An Empire style ormolu-mounted mahogany console double face
PROPERTY OF THE VON OPPENHEIM TRUST
An Empire style ormolu-mounted mahogany console double face

AFTER THE MODEL BY JACOB-DESMALTER, CIRCA 1890

Details
An Empire style ormolu-mounted mahogany console double face
After the model by Jacob-Desmalter, Circa 1890
The rectangular verde antico marble top above a frieze applied with laurel and floral rosettes, on four caryatid supports and a pair of anthemia-applied end supports, on 'H'-shaped base surmounted by a two-handled vase flanked by a pair of winged sphinxes
32¼in. (82cm.) high; 49in. (124.4cm.) wide; 26¼in. (66.6cm.) deep
Provenance
Purchased Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, December 1, 1980, lot 369.

Lot Essay

The present centre table is a copy of the console double face designed in 1808 by François-Honoré-Georges Jacob dit Jacob-Desmalter (d. 1841), and supplied for the bedroom of Caroline Murat at the palais de l'Elysée, Paris. Originally with a top inlaid with a mosaic copied from Herculaneum, but replaced with a marble slab at the end of the 19th century, the table is now in the Grand Trianon, Paris (see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et objets d'art, Vol. I, Paris, 1975, p. 25).

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