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AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
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AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

BY GEORGES AND FRANCOIS-HONORE GEORGES JACOB (DIT JACOB DESMALTER), CIRCA 1805

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AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
BY GEORGES AND FRANCOIS-HONORE GEORGES JACOB (DIT JACOB DESMALTER), CIRCA 1805
With a rectangular top, the brass bound edge above a secretaire frieze drawer with a later tooled-leather writing surface and fitted with drawers, on stylized lotus-carved paw monopodia joined by a shaped plinth; stamped 'JACOB R. MESLEE' to the underside of the frieze drawer
34 ¾ in. (88.3 cm.) high, 57 ½ in. (146 cm.) wide, 28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) deep

By repute, supplied to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
By repute, the Collection of George Vivian (according to printed label).

Note du spécialiste

Georges (1739-1814, maître in 1765) and François-Honoré Georges Jacob (1770-1841) dit Jacob-Desmalter employed this stamp between 1803 and 1813.

The George Vivian mentioned in the label may refer to George the Baron Vivian (1878-1940) who served in the Boer War and was later aide-de-camp to King Albert I of Belgium.

A nearly identical table, called a "bureau mécanique" was supplied to Napoleon at Saint-Cloud (1805), Compiègne (1808), and Fontainebleau (1809). The King of Naples and Napoleon's brother-in-law, Joachim Murat, possessed two such examples (at Fontainebleau and at Caserte).