Lot 246: A RESTAURATION ACAJOU MOUCHETE CONSOLE TABLE

GEORGES ALPHONSE JACOB-DESMALTER (1799-1870), CIRCA 1830
With black marble top, stamped IACOB twice
97 cm. high x 104 cm. wide x 42.5 cm. deep

This console table has characteristic legs terminating in lion's paw feet. Similar legs by Georges Alphonse Jacob Desmalter are illustrated in Denise Ledoux Lebard, Les Ebenistes du XIX Siècle, Paris, 1965, pp. 361; a mahogany gueridon, 363; a mahogany "table de famille" and 365; a burr-elm console-jardinière.

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