" Stamped Jacob - Beautiful And Rare Console In Rosewood - Charles X Period"
Very elegant console in rosewood.Rich inlay of foliage, palmettes, rosettes and lemon tree fillets.
She opens a drawer. The front uprights are in console, the rear uprights in ice-bottom pilaster.
The base is notched.
Very beautiful gray breccia marble (formerly restored).
Charles X period.
Stamped "JACOB" for Georges-Alphonse JACOB-DESMALTER
Height: 95.5 cm - Length: 114.5 cm Depth: 47.5 cm
Georges-Alphonse JACOB-DESMALTER (1799 - 1870)
Grandson of the famous Georges Jacob and son of François-Honoré who founded with his father Georges the house "Jacob Desmalter et Cie", Georges Alphonse succeeded his father and continued to work for the Crown during the second period of the Restoration and under the July Monarchy.
Skillful draftsman, pupil of Percier, Alphonse Jacob created works of a very sought-after composition taking care of the ornamental decoration. Unfortunately, the tastes of his time and the principles of economics which prevailed forced him to decline thereafter in industrial practice.
In 1847, discouraged at not being able to fight against the decline of his art, he ceded his establishments to his colleague J. Jeanselme.
His productions present different stamps, with or without a framed star.
Late in life, he adopted that of his grandfather from which he had removed the initial of the first name. (See the French 19th century furniture by Denise Ledoux-Lebart)
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