Early 19th century mahogany French Empire dining table, ca 1810-1820. Brilliant Greco-Roman style base with hairy paw feet. Stamped Jacob on underside of table, two part base with fifth center leg (missing straps- see photos). Believed to be a piece by Jacob-Desmalter, a long time furniture maker for Napoleon and other royal commissions. H 29" x W 12" 1/3"(with all five leaves) x D 64". Four 19" leaves, one 10". Some distress as shown. Francois-Honore-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (1770-1841) oversaw one of the most successful and influential furniture workshops in Paris, from 1796 to 1825. The son of Georges Jacob, an outstanding chairmaker who worked in the Louis XVI style and Directoire styles of the earlier phase of Neoclassicism and executed many royal commissions, Jacob-Desmalter, in partnership with his older brother, assumed the family workshop in 1796. Freed from the Parisian guild restrictions of the Ancient Regime, the workshop was now able to produce veneered case-pieces (Ãbanisterie) in addition to turned and carved seat furniture (menuiserie). When his brother died, Jacob-Desmalter drew his father from retirement and began to develop one of the largest furniture workshops in Napoleonic Paris. Property of the William Gwinn Mather's Estate. Mathers was the president of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company.