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In the Empire style, the rectangular lapis lazuli top above a frieze mounted with stylized acanthus mounts, supported by four classical female term figures flanking a trestle centered by an urn and two winged sphinxes
32 in. (81.5 cm.) high, 65 in. (165 cm.) wide, 3334 in. (85.75 cm.) deep
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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).

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