A very fine Empire style mahogany pedestal table with a superb gilt bronze mount after a model by Jacob-Desmalter, the circular verde antico marble top surmounting a mahogany frieze mounted with a band of laurel leaves between rosettes, supported by the heads of three finely chiseled gilt bronze female caryatids, each turned outwards, with braided hair, bare feet and crossed arms, wearing armbands and a diaphanous dress, the stretcher centered by a chiseled covered urn flanked by three elegant crouching winged sphinxes wearing Nemes headdresses and braids tied in front, the whole resting on claw feet.
The design of this superb pedestal table is inspired by a famous console table, or "double-sided console," made by the renowned Parisian cabinetmaker Jacob-Desmalter, himself based on designs by Napoleon's chief architects and decorators, Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853). The console table was delivered in 1808 to the Élysée Palace in Paris, where it was placed in the bedroom of Caroline Murat, Napoleon's younger sister. It was later moved to the Grand Trianon at Versailles, where it remains today. Rectangular in shape, it originally had a top inlaid with a mosaic copied from Herculaneum, which was replaced with a marble top in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Marble diameter: 93 cm. In very good condition.
Condition report: original gilding, cleaned. Varnish reapplied with a pad.
Delivery
Europe: €500
US/Canada/HK: €1800
Rest of the world: Price upon request
- Reference :
- 3514
- Width :
- 97 (cm)
- Height :
- 83 (cm)
- Depth :
- 97 (cm)
- Era:
- 19th century
- Style:
- Empire
- Materials:
- Mahogany, marble, gilded bronze
