AN ORMOLU AND LAPIS LAZULI-VENEERED CENTER TABLE

The present center 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).