CONSULATE PERIOD CHEST OF DRAWERS WITH LEAVES Stamped by Jacob Frères Rue Meslée In mahogany and speckled mahogany veneer, top in black Belgian marble, the front opening into two doors revealing an interior fitted with four sliding shelves, the pilaster-shaped uprights surmounted by busts of turbaned women and a crescent moon, the escutcheons with Zephyr heads, resting on a plinth terminating in claw feet at the front and straight at the back, stamped JACOB FRÈRES / RUE MESLÉE on the left rear jamb, bearing an apocryphal stamp on the right rear jamb, a label printed on the back inscribed "LE GARDE MEUBLE PUBLIC / BEDEL & Cie / 18 Rue St. Augustin / 9982 / Avenue St. Augustin". Augustin / 9982 / Avenue Victor Hugo, 67 / 194 Rue Champion et Rue Lecourbe 808". H. 93 cm (36 ½ in.) l. W: 147.5 cm (58 in.) P. 57 cm (22½ in.) Jacob Frères rue Meslée, stamp used by François-Honoré-Georges and Georges II Jacob between 1796 and 1803. Provenance : Former Albert Grognot Collection ; Sale in Paris, Hôtel George V, 17 December 1990, lot 174 (see Fig. 1). Bibliography: D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe siècle, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2000, p.306 (mentioned). A Consulat gilt, patinated bronze mounted and mahogany commode a vantaux, stamped by Jacob Freres Rue Meslée