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Very elegant rosewood console table.
Richly inlaid with scrolls, palmettes, rosettes and lemon tree fillets.
It opens to a drawer.
The front uprights are console-shaped, the rear uprights pilaster-shaped with a mirror back.
The base is notched.
Very fine grey Breche marble (previously restored).
Charles X period.
Stamped "JACOB" for Georges-Alphonse JACOB-DESMALTER
Height: 95.5 cm
Length : 114,5 cm
Depth : 47,5 cm
Georges-Alphonse JACOB-DESMALTER (1799 - 1870)
Grandson of the famous Georges Jacob and son of François-Honoré, who founded the firm "Jacob Desmalter et Cie" with his father Georges, Georges Alphonse succeeded his father and continued to work for the Crown during the second Restoration period and under the July Monarchy.
A skilful draughtsman and pupil of Percier, Alphonse Jacob created works of exquisite composition and ornamental decoration.
Unfortunately, the tastes of his time and the prevailing principles of economy forced him to lose ground in industrial practice.
In 1847, discouraged by his inability to combat the decline of his art, he sold his business to his colleague J. Jeanselme.
His work features a variety of stamps, with or without a star in the frame. Late in life, he adopted that of his grandfather, from whom he had removed the initial of the first name (see Denise Ledoux-Lebart's Mobilier Français du XIXème).
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