A ROYAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

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Los 40 | A ROYAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
A ROYAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

BY GEORGES-ALPHONSE JACOB-DESMALTER, CIRCA 1832

The rotating circular gilt-tooled green leather-lined top above four frieze drawers, on three supports headed by palmettes and with paw feet with inset wooden castors, joined by a tripartite stretcher, stamped to the frame 'JACOB', with black stencilled '1402' and crowned 'TU' for the Palais de Tuileries, inscribed in black ink to one drawer: 'Mobilier de la couronne donné par l’Empereur Napoléon III à Julie Bonaparte marquise de Roccagiovine, à Paris rue de Grenelle Saint Germain 142 en 1867'

29. in. (73.5 cm.) high; 63 1/2 in. (161 cm.) diameter





Provenance

Delivered circa 1832-1833, inventoried in 1833 in the 'family salon' of King Louis-Philippe I at the Palais des Tuileries, located on the 1st floor on the garden side.

Given in 1867 by Napoleon III to his cousin Princess Julie Bonaparte (1830-1900), Marquise de Roccagiovine, granddaughter of Lucien Bonaparte, placed in the hôtel located at no. 142 rue de Grenelle, known at the time as the 'Hôtel Bonaparte'.





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

C. Samoyault-Verlet, 'Les Appartements des souverains en France au XIXe siècle' in Hof, Kultur und Politik im 19. Jahrhundert, Röhrscheid, Bonn, 1985, pp. 121-137.

D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Dictionnaire des ébénistes et des menuisiers, Paris, 2000, p. 360-363.

P. Arizzoli-Clémentel & J.-P. Samoyault, Le mobilier de Versailles, chefs-d’œuvre du XIXe siècle, Dijon, 2009, cat. nos. 125-126, pp. 347-348.





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