IMPORTANT GUÉRIDON DIT « DE FAMILLE »

IMPORTANT "FAMILY" PEDESTAL TABLE
Circular in mahogany and mahogany veneer.
The belt opens to eight drawers
numbered from 1 to 8.
It stands on an imposing base with four
uprights terminating in lion paws
by lion paws and joined by a central medallion
central medallion of radiating water leaves.
leaves.
Louis-Philippe period, circa 1835.
Attributed to Georges-Alphonse Jacob dit
Jacob-Desmalter (1799 - 1870).
Height: 73 cm - Diameter: 153.6 cm
(Damage and missing parts)

PROVENANCE
- Salon de Lamartine, Château de Monceau, Prissé (Saône-et-Loire).
- By inheritance to the present day.

This type of "family" pedestal table, with 4 to 8
drawers, was very popular with Louis-Philippe, who
furnished each of his residences. Each
numbered drawer held the needlework of the royal
of the royal princesses.

The Salon de Famille created by Louis-Philippe
at Trianon today includes two of these
family pedestal tables by Jacob-Desmalter, delivered
were delivered in 1837 and initially placed
respectively in the Petit Trianon and the
salon de l'Empereur.

"Le prince" - as Gustave Macon
always called King Louis-Philippe's son - often told me
often spoke to me of the evenings the royal family
royal family gathered at the Palais-Royal and the Tuileries
around a round mahogany table. A series of
a series of numbered drawers containing embroidery
the embroidery and tapestry works
of Queen Marie-Amélie, her daughters and daughters-in-law.
A large lamp lit the table. The
valets passed by with trays laden with
orgeat syrup. The king's bourgeois sons were reading
newspapers or chatting, but needles,
conversation and reading were interrupted when
the king took out a manuscript and began to read."

[in Louis-Philippe: le méconnu by André
Castelot - Perrin, 1994]