Live Auction 5706The Opulent Eye - 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
AN EMPIRE-STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
Lot 94

AN EMPIRE-STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE

AFTER THE MODEL BY JACOB-DESMALTER, BY LEON KAHN, PARIS, CIRCA 1890

Closed20 September 2012

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AN EMPIRE-STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE
AFTER THE MODEL BY JACOB-DESMALTER, BY LEON KAHN, PARIS, CIRCA 1890
The rectangular vert maurin marble top with moulded lip, above a frieze applied with leaf-trails and rosettes, on caryatid legs centred to the sides by square legs mounted with palmettes and joined by a stretcher centred by an urn and flanked by sphinxes within a vine surround, stamped 'KAHN' behind the mounts
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 27 in. (69 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The present centre table is after the 'console double face' model designed in 1808 by François-Honoré-Georges Jacob dit Jacob-Desmalter (d. 1841). The original table was supplied for the bedroom of Caroline Murat, Napoleon's youngest sister, at the Palais de l'Elysée, Paris. Originally with a top inlaid with a mosaic copied from Herculaneum, but replaced with a marble slab at the end of the 19th century, the table is now in the Grand Trianon, Versailles (see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et objets d'art, Paris, 1975, vol. I, p. 25).

A version of this model was sold Christie's, New York, 24 April 2001, lot 246 ($30,550).