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An Imperial gilt-bronze mounted carved giltwood console table, by François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter, delivered in 1808 to the Palais des Tuileries for Napoleon's Grand Cabinet Intérieur
Auction Closed
July 6, 02:09 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
An Imperial gilt-bronze mounted carved giltwood console table, by François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter
delivered in 1808 to the Palais des Tuileries for Napoleon's Grand Cabinet Intérieur
with a rouge Griotte marble top delivered by Louis-Etienne Hersent (1741-1817), above a gilt-bronze mounted frieze centered by a medallion with head of Minerva, flanked by laurel leaves and paterae, on acanthus carved scrolled supports, fluted and ending on paw feet and embellished to the sides with flowerheads and lead lion mask to the insides of scrolls, with straight back supports, on a plinth base; inscribed to the back with Palais de Saint-Cloud and Garde-Meuble Impérial inventory numbers: SC 440 (1833 inventory); SC 383 (1843 inventory); ST C 396 (1855 inventory), 43709 (1869 Garde-Meuble Impérial inventory)
104cm. high, 164.5cm. wide, 50cm. deep; 3ft. 5in., 5ft 4¾in., 1ft 7¾in.
Returned to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne in April 1812;
Sent to the Palais de Saint-Cloud in 1832 and placed in the King Louis-Philippe’s Salon du Conseil;
Moved to the Salon de Vénus, previously Napoleon’s Salle du Trône, after 1855;
Returned to the Garde-Meuble Impérial in 1869;
Sold by the Domaines in 1876;
Collection Château de Carheil, Plessé (Loire-Atlantique);
French Private Collection, where acquired by the present owner.
DOCUMENTAL SOURCES*
Paris, Archives nationales, Maison de l'empereur (Premier Empire): O/2/507, dossier 14, pièce 52; O/2/591; O/2/680.
Paris, Archives nationales, Garde-Meuble: AJ/19/143; AJ/19/312; AJ/19/326; AJ/19/603; AJ/19/605; AJ/19/709; AJ/19/1155.