A pair of Regency rosewood console tables circa 1820

in the manner of S. Jamar, with white marble tops and applied gilt-metal mounts, on tapering supports headed by masks, with a replaced mirror back, minor differences to measurements

These are generally in good condition. The marble tops which appear to be orignial have plugged holes suggesting that they may have had a superstructure originally. One plinth is cracked and is lacking a section of rope twist mount. Both have minor losses to veneers, old marks and scratches.
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Tte French inspired design of the present tables, clearly reflecting the influence of Percier and Fontaine, is characteristic of the work of S. Jamar, a London based cabinet-maker whose furniture approximates more closely than that of any other at this period to the pure Empire style. Jamr worked from premises in Wardour Street and later Gerrard Street, Soho, and is last recorded  in 1826. In advertisements of the period he claimed to produce furniture ` equal to any made in Paris, and at a rate that upon calculation will be admitted condiderably advantageous than inplrting from abroad'.